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adjective

committed adj.

Bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude. Opposite of uncommitted. Note: (Narrower terms: bound up, involved, wrapped up; dedicated, devoted; pledged, sworn)

Associated in an exclusive sexual relationship; also called attached. Opposite of unattached. Note: (Narrower terms: affianced, bespoken, betrothed, engaged, pledged, promised(predicate); married) (Also See: loving.)

Synonyms: attached.

Consigned involuntarily to custody, as in a prison or mental institution.

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"Committed" Quotes from Famous Books

... complimenting him on being 'thorough game to the last.' Louis relieved his mind by apologies for his blunders, whereupon he learnt that his good colonel had never discovered them, and now only laughed at them, and declared that they were mere trifles to what the whole corps, officers and men, committed whenever they met, and no one cared except one old sergeant who had been in the Light Dragoons. Louis's very repentance for them was another piece of absurdity. He smiled, indeed, but seemed to give himself up as a hopeless subject. His spirits flagged ...

— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge

... the great roads was committed to the districts through which they passed, and a large number of hands was constantly employed to keep them in repair. This was the more easily done in a country where the mode of travelling was altogether on foot; though the roads are said to have been so nicely constructed that a ...

— The Road and the Roadside • Burton Willis Potter

... of, and upon the validity of the excuses put forward either for the acts themselves, or for failure to give satisfaction for them. The British claims against Venezuela seem to fall into three classes. It will hardly be disputed that acts of violence towards British subjects or vessels, committed under State authority, call for redress. Losses by British subjects in the course of civil wars would come next, and would need more careful scrutiny (on this point the debates and votes of the Institut de Droit ...

— Letters To "The Times" Upon War And Neutrality (1881-1920) • Thomas Erskine Holland

... atrocious murder than that in the Wilderness was committed, within less than a mile of the same place, at Well-Syke Wood, which again is about two miles from Woodhall Spa. The shooting of the wood belonged to the Rev. John Dymoke, afterwards the champion, who rented it from Lord Fortescue. In the year 1850, the head keeper, ...

— Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood - Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter • J. Conway Walter

... gave a mysterious undertone of sadness to much of the correspondence of these two friends. The forebodings were destined to be more than fulfilled in the tragic reality. Poor Guenderode, wrought to madness by a disappointment in love, committed suicide. She drowned herself in a river, where her body was found entangled in the long sedge. Years afterwards, Bettine relates the story in a letter to Goethe, the perusal of which has made many a gentle heart ache. The substance of the ...

— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger

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