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▪ I. † recommit, v.1 Obs. rare.
[ad. med.L. recommittĕre to recommend: cf. recommiss.]
trans. To commit or commend to a person, etc.
1521Fisher Serm. agst. Luther iv. Wks. (1876) 344 All the soules that by his false doctryne he sleeth and murdereth, he recommytteth them vnto almyghty god. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 618/1 Beseching the court aforesayd, that they wyll receaue fauorably the sayd Wylliam vnto them thus recommitted. 1658Earl of Monmouth tr. Paruta's Wars Cyprus 199 We ought not to recommit the total of our Fortune..to the uncertain event of Battel.
▪ II. recommit, v.2|riːkəˈmɪt|
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. To send or refer (a bill, etc.) back to a committee.
1621H. Elsing Debates Ho. Lds. (Camden) 85 The House to debate the doubte,..and if the major part doubt, yt may be recommitted. 1729Votes & Proc. Pennsylv. Ho. Repr. (1754) III. 72 Ordered, That the said Act be re-committed for several Amendments. 1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 37 The House..agreed to the address; but when a motion was made for its being recommitted [etc.]. 1863H. Cox Instit. i. ix. 168 A bill may be re-committed generally, or on amendments proposed on the consideration of the report.
b. To entrust (a person or thing) again to a person.
1783Burke Sp. E. Ind. Bill Wks. 1826 IV. 111 It is to recommit the government of India to the court of directors. 1870Anderson Missions Amer. Bd. II. xvii. 136 The code was then recommitted to the graduate, with instructions to supply certain deficiencies.
2. To commit (a person) again to (a court, prison, etc.). Also without const.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. iv. §312 The House of Commons..caused them immediately again to be recommitted to the Tower. 1863Times 11 Feb., Criminals, who are recommitted, after having been convicted of former offences.
3. To commit or do (an action) again.
1647Herrick Noble Numb., To God, God..Will add a power to keep me innocent; That I shall ne're that trespasse recommit. 1677Gilpin Demonol. (1867) 84 The inclinations that are begot in us by any act of sin to recommit it. 1795tr. Mercier's Fragm. Pol. & Hist. II. 467 When you wish to recommit a sin, you must there pay double. |