committeen.¹

Brit.

/ˌkɒmᵻˈtiː/, U.S.

/ˌkɑməˈti/

Forms: late Middle English commyttee, late Middle English–1600s commitee, 1500s comittie, 1500s commytte, 1500s–1600s committie, 1500s–1600s comyttee, 1500s–1600s comyttie, 1500s– committee, 1600s comittee, 1600s committe.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: commit v., -ee suffix¹.

Etymology: < commit v. + -ee suffix¹. Compare committee n.²Originally the same word as committee n.², now usually distinguished in pronunciation. The senses at this entry normally retain the original stress pattern, with the main stress on the final syllable, although some variation may have been found in earlier use (compare the metrical evidence of quot. 1606 at sense 1a). With sense 2, compare earlier committeeship n.²

†a. A person to whom some task, duty, or office is entrusted or delegated; a person commissioned or appointed to do something. Obsolete except as in sense 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > one to whom a commission is given

commissary1395

commissioner1414

committee1472

commissionar1496

commissionary1555

commis1573

commissionaire1641

commissionee1647

commissaire1791

commendatary1852

commish1871

1472–3 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 1st Roll §55. m. 8 Your said suppliaunt, his deputees, commyttees, and his grauntees of the same, were not of power to resiste [etc.].

1495 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1495 §56. m. 31 The kinges commitees or his patentees for the kepyng of the seid toun.

1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xii. f. 23 The garden or his commytte or graunte shall tende, and offre mariage to the warde.

1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 547 The Bishop of Rome hath beene made the Committie of diuerse Councels, to receiue the subscription.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 133 The Comittie, or Purueyour generall, who hath charge to prouide all Bastiments, prouision, and other necessarie things.

1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xv. xcvi. 383 By great, by needy Mal-Contents, by Credulous, and Vitious, Work Romes Committees.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 331 Nicholas Wotton..thrise chosen a Committee about peace between the English, French, and Scotish.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Committee, he to whom a matter is committed to be ordered or decided.

b. One of a group of people jointly entrusted with some task, duty, or office; a member of a body appointed or elected for a specific function; a member of a committee (committee n.² 1). Usually in plural. Now rare (historical in later use).After the 17th cent. chiefly in Lords committees, collectively denoting the members of a House of Lords committee or subcommittee, as distinct from the whole House considered as a committee (cf. subcommittee n.¹), and in specialized applications with reference to particular groups, as the 24 directors elected annually by the East India Company to manage its affairs, or the body of 21 people originally responsible for the financial management and appointment of governors at Guy’s Hospital (cf. court of committees at court n.¹ 14).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > one to whom a commission is given > one of a body of

committee1571

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > member of

committee1571

committeeman1642

committee member1648

1571 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 26 Apr. 2 f. 20^v The comyttees for the bill of fugitives are appointed to meet in the Star-chamber at three of the clock to morrow in the afternoon.

1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. viii. 174/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The bill is put to certeine committees to be amended.

1617 T. Roe Let. 6 Dec. in Embassy of Sir T. Roe to Court of Great Mogul (1899) II. 434 By virtue of the King's authoritie giuen vnto mee his Ambassador..by the Committes of the Honourable Company of East India Merchants.

1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. (1809) vii. 11 These committees when they meet, they elect one of them to sit in the chair in likenesse of the speaker.

1708 A. Boyer Hist. Reign Queen Anne: Year the Sixth App. 129 The Lords Committees ordered him to attend again: and he was farther examined in relation to the Facts mentioned in the Answer.

1725 Act 11 Geo. I (Guy's Hospital) The several persons herein-after named..are hereby declared to be the President, Treasurer, and one and twenty Committees of the said hereby erected Corporation.

1764 Vindic. Mr. Holwell's Char. 13 After electing their Chairman and Deputy, and appointing the several Committees, Captain Tullie moved, that an express should be immediately dispatched to Portsmouth.

1772 J. Ayloffe Cal. Anc. Charters Introd. p. xliii The reports made by the lords committees 1st and 22nd of May 1725.

1838 Mirror of Parl. (1st Sess., 13th Parl.) 6 5005/1 The Committee to be proposed by the Lords' Committees appointed for proposing Committees on Opposed Bills.

1888 C. Robinson & R. A. Brock Abstr. Proc. Virginia Company London 1619–1624 4 The committees and auditors were chosen also.

1892 S. Wilks Biogr. Hist. Guy's Hosp. ii. i. 76 The president or treasurer and any seven committees were to be a full Court of Committees, and to have power to sell or dispose of any of the Hospital estates.

1965 R. C. Prasad Early Eng. Travellers in India v. 136 The ‘Committees’ (or, as we should say, Directors) of the Company made a petition to King James to command Roe to proceed..as a special plenipotentiary to the court of Jahangir.

1974 R. H. Mead In Sunshine of Life iii. 58 The minutes of the Committees of Guy's Hospital, April 6, 1725, contains this item.

2. A person given legal responsibility for or guardianship of another person or his or her affairs, usually because of mental incapacity. Cf. commit v. 2, committeeship n.² Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > entrusting to another's care or keeping > putting incapable person into another's care > one to whom

committee1762

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > one who looks after > guardian of minor or incapable person > of mentally incapable person

committee1762

1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves II. xiv. 32 This was a charge of lunacy, in consequence of which he hoped to..be appointed sole committee of her person.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. viii. 294 If he be found non compos, he [sc. the Lord Chancellor] usually commits the care of his person..to some friend, who is then called his committee.

1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xvii. 118 The powers given by the Act..may be exercised by guardians for infants, by committees for lunatics.

1884 Times 27 Oct. 4/5 She was the committee of the lunatic.

1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 2 Aug. 11/1 An exparte application of the Committee of an incompetent person for an order granting it authority.

2014 Ontario Rep. 3rd Ser. 120 657 The appellants..asked the court to declare Angelo mentally incompetent and to appoint them as committees of Angelo's person and estate.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

committeen.²

Brit.

/kəˈmɪti/, U.S.

/kəˈmɪdi/

Forms: 1500s comyttee, 1500s–1600s comitty, 1500s–1600s committy, 1500s–1700s comittee, 1500s–1800s commitee, 1600s comittie, 1600s committe, 1600s–1700s commitie, 1600s–1700s committie, 1600s– committee, 1700s comitee, 1700s comitte; also Scottish pre-1700 commitie, pre-1700 committey, pre-1700 committie, 1800s comma-tee, 1900s– comatee; also Irish English (northern) 2000s– comatee.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: committee n.¹

Etymology: Originally a variant of committee n.¹, now usually distinguished in pronunciation.Compare French comité (1650 as committée ; < English). The original stress pattern with the main stress on the final syllable is retained by committee n.¹ (and occasionally by committee n.² in Scots). The pronunciation with stress on the penultimate syllable (now standard for the senses at this entry) is found in verse from the early 17th cent. (compare quot. 1606 at committee n.¹ 1a) and is suggested by forms like committy (compare -y suffix⁵) which are attested from the mid 16th cent. (compare quot. 1566 at sense 1a); its origin is uncertain, and may be due to association of the word in senses relating to a group or body of people with classical Latin comitium comitia n. (compare comices n.).

a. A body of two or more persons appointed, elected, or established to perform a particular function; esp. a group of people selected by a larger body (as a society, corporation, public meeting, etc.), and typically consisting of members of that body, established for the purpose of carrying out a specific task, duty, or office on a permanent or temporary basis.Compare committee n.¹ 1b which refers to the individual members of such a body.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee

committee1566

leet1665

board1909

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > committee of whole legislative assembly

committee1566

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > parliamentary committees

committee1566

grand committee1606

Ned1961

Neddy1962

little Neddy1963

little Ned1964

1566 R. Horne Answeare M. J. Fekenham f. 32^v The Iudges seeinge the exclamations and confusion..appointeth a Committy, choosinge foorth of sundry partes a certaine number to goe aside with the Iudges, to make a resolution.

1651 W. Birchley Christian Moderator 24 Why do we not erect a Committee to purchase souls, as we have Contracters to sell Lands?

1675 J. Ogilby Britannia Introd. 4 The East India Company..Regulated by a Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Committee of 24 Assistants.

1706 T. Baker Hampstead Heath i. i. 5 And what signifies your Reforming Society? The noble Exploit of demolishing a poor Sunday Apple-Stall,..and your Committees for suppressing Bartholomew Fair.

1779 J. Jay in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) II. 283 The Committee..fluctuates, new members constantly coming in, and old ones going out.

1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 356 The subscribers met, and named a Committee of administration to regulate the expences.

1871 J. Ruskin Munera Pulveris (1880) 11 I had the honour of being on the committee..for the victualling of Paris after her surrender.

1922 G. K. Chesterton Man who knew too Much vii. 192 Don't you think agricultural laborers would rather have three acres and a cow than three acres of printed forms and a committee?

1968 Science 9 Feb. 660/2 A World Health Organization (WHO) committee is being formed to discuss and formulate terminology.

2011 M. Whyman Oink 270 ‘I'm here about the village fete,’ he pressed on. ‘The committee was hoping you could help out on the face-painting stall once more.’

b. spec. A body appointed by a legislative or deliberative assembly to consider a particular matter or perform a particular function; esp. one established to conduct an inquiry into an issue and present a report or set of recommendations to the assembly as a whole, or one responsible for examining, debating, and suggesting amendments to proposed legislation (cf. committee stage n. at Compounds 2).grand committee, joint committee, select committee, special committee, standing committee: see the first element. See also Committee of Ways and Means at ways and means n. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > other types of committee

committee1571

council of war1590

special committee1606

standing committeea1632

Committee of Safety1642

working party1744

finance committee1783

Board (also Court) of county commissioners1806

business committee1825

national committee1826

watch committee1835

working group1888

Central Committee1917

action committee1918

action group1927

ombuds-committee1964

PESC1969

1571 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 6 Apr. 2 f. 11^v Upon a motion for unyformytie of religion and the mentor of certain bills..a comyttee is by the house appointed.

1626 J. Mede Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 225 The Commons having chosen a Committee of Eight..to deliver some fourteen Articles against him unto the Lords.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 239 Shortly after the beginning of the Parliament, there had been a Committee appointed to prepare and draw up a general Remonstrance of the state of the Kingdom.

1792 T. H. B. Oldfield Entire Hist. Great Brit. II. 117 They however derived, from this appeal, the privilege of proving their rateability to a committee of the house of commons.

a1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1853) I. 10 Their report..which, not being liked, the House recommitted it, on the 26th, and added Mr. Dickinson and myself to the committee.

1855 Maquoketa (Iowa) Sentinel 15 Feb. Mr. Mallory's bill from the Committee on Naval affairs was taken up and passed.

1898 Daily News 23 Apr. 8/2 The ordered business of the day was Committee of Supply on the Civil Service Estimates.

1945 W. S. Churchill Victory (1946) 28 The Committee have now finished their labours, and their Report is before us.

1966 D. G. Tacheron & M. K. Udall Job of Congressman vi. 154 Each party has a Committee on Committees that is responsible for assignment of newly elected members and for reassignment of members who wish to transfer from one committee to another.

2014 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 18 Nov. New Zealand First is boycotting a committee which will decide how the public votes on the national flag.

c. A group of people who come together in order to discuss and take action on a matter of mutual interest or concern; a society or organization dedicated to the promotion of a particular cause or object.

ΚΠ

1820 2nd Ann. Rep. Managers Soc. Prevention Pauperism N.-Y. 34 Having formed a committee of ladies, to unite with her in carrying on her system of reformation, Mrs. Fry visits the prison frequently.

1899 Chinese Recorder Nov. 554 A number of distinguished gentlemen had organized themselves into a committee to raise..£3,000..for an exposition building.

1909 T. Seltzer tr. H. Sudermann Song of Songs iii. 27 The means for saving him would have to be obtained privately. ‘Let's form a committee,’ one girl proposed, and the others seconded enthusiastically.

1936 N.Y. Times 9 Mar. 21/1 Formation of a committee to organize opposition to the appointment of William Furtwaengler..as general musical director of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society, was announced yesterday.

2004 D. O. Russell in D. O. Russell & J. Baena I heart Huckabees 127 I organized a kids committee to campaign for Humphrey against Nixon when I was ten years old.

2. A meeting or session of such a body.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > meeting of

committee1643

committee meeting1746

1643 J. Row Kirk-Session Bk. Carnock 29 Jan. in Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow Soc.) (1842) p. xx I was to go to Edinburgh to attend the committey of the Parliament.

1666 S. Pepys Diary 14 June (1972) VII. 166 Away to White-hall to a committee for Tanger—where the Duke of York was and Sir W. Coventry, and a very full committee.

1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 124 This Day a Committee was held.

1742 H. Walpole Lett. to H. Mann 22 Jan. I. 78 The night of the Committee, my brother had got invalids at his house.

1779 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 XIV. 424 Mr. Barker, who was chairman on the last day of the committee, knew nothing of this promise.

1889 M. J. Serrano tr. M. Bashkirtseff Jrnl. Young Artist 378 Well, how did things go at the committee?

1900 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 114 47/1 The honourable gentleman was ungenerous enough to say I did not attend the Committee when the Bill was under consideration.

1955 W. H. Beveridge Power & Infl. xiv. 302 The National Conference of Friendly Societies gave oral evidence formally on February 25 when, for the first and last time, I was absent from the Committee through indisposition.

2014 Lebanon (Tennessee) Democrat (Nexis) 27 May The last day of the committee was closing down before the attorney general's opinion came in.

Phrases

P1.

a. to go into (†a, † the) committee.

(a) Of a deliberative body, esp. Parliament: to convert itself into a committee for some purpose; to become a committee in order to debate or deliberate on (also upon) a bill. Cf. Committee of the Whole House at Phrases 2b.See also resolve v. 10b.With quot. 1685, cf. grand committee n. at grand adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1685 in King James II Speech 30 May 2 The House went into a Grand Committee to Consider further of a Supply for His Majesty.

1702 R. Cocks Diary 29 Apr. (1996) 274 We went into the Committee upon the privateer bill.

1823 New Monthly Mag. 9 293/1 The House went into a Committee on the..Bill.

1868 London Rev. 27 June 636/2 On Tuesday the Lords will go into Committee upon the Reform Bill for Scotland.

1940 Manch. Guardian 23 May 2/6 The bill was read a second time without a division and the House went into Committee upon it.

1992 Irish Times 19 May 11/3 The House has gone into committee on this Bill, and I am precluded from appointment.

(b) Of a bill, etc.: to be examined or debated by a committee (sense 1b); to pass to the committee stage (committee stage n. at Compounds 2).

ΚΠ

1718 A. Boyer Polit. State Great Brit. Feb. 197 The Opposers..endeavour'd to stave off the Bill before it went into a Committee.

1823 New Monthly Mag. 9 290/1 The..Bill went into a committee.

1919 L. S. Fanning Politics & Public 68 The Liquor Restriction Bill went into committee on 21st September, 1917.

2014 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 18 Feb. 2 The council met trade union representatives and briefed staff in advance of the proposals going to committee.

b. in committee.

(a) Of a deliberative body: acting or deliberating as a committee; in session as a committee. Cf. Phrases 2b.

ΚΠ

1646 J. Taylor Briefe Rel. Idiotismes & Absurdities M. Corbet 14 Some Aldermen, some Common-Councell men, (In number twelve) sate in Committee then.

1832 W. Owen Let. 1 Mar. in C. Darwin Corr. (1985) I. 212 The Reform Bill..is again undergoing a tedious debating in Committee of the Commons.

1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. lviii. 285 Many nights of discussion were occupied in committee.

1907 Times 30 Aug. 3/5 The House in committee already caused the Government to view with grave anxiety the approach of the decisive plenary discussion.

1988 Parl. Affairs 41 391 In the Lords all public bills are considered in committee on the floor of the House.

2005 S. Pape & S. Featherstone Newspaper Journalism vi. 96 The press and public will be asked to leave if anything is to be discussed ‘in committee’.

(b) Of a bill: under consideration by a committee (sense 1b); in the committee stage (committee stage n. at Compounds 2).

ΚΠ

1653 C. Hotham Brief Acct. Proc. Comm. Reformation Universities (single sheet) The Question being then in Committee only concerning his Printed Book.

1775 J. Macpherson Hist. Great Brit. II. iv. 174 While yet the bill remained in committee, another incident added uneasiness to resentment in the breast of William.

1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds III. lxxx. 348 His great measure was even now in committee.

1893 Westm. Gaz. 30 June 2/2 The Coercion Bill (1887) was allowed 15 days in Committee before the application of the guillotine.

1910 J. London Theft ii. 104 Gifford How's that compensation act coming on? Knox (Wearily.) The same old story. It will never come before the House. It is dying in committee.

1963 J. A. DeNovo Amer. Interests in Middle East 157 When Congress adjourned on June 12 the treaty was still in committee.

2011 Guardian (Nexis) 5 Oct. 9 An amendment that, if passed, would effectively stall the bill in committee.

P2.

Committee of Safety n. now historical any of various official committees set up to oversee security in a time of war or instability; spec. (a) English History any of several committees set up in times of emergency by Parliament or Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War and Interregnum; (b) U.S. History any of various committees established in the American colonies as an alternative to colonial authorities during the American Revolution.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > other types of committee

committee1571

council of war1590

special committee1606

standing committeea1632

Committee of Safety1642

working party1744

finance committee1783

Board (also Court) of county commissioners1806

business committee1825

national committee1826

watch committee1835

working group1888

Central Committee1917

action committee1918

action group1927

ombuds-committee1964

PESC1969

1642 R. L'Estrange Relaps'd Apostate Note X. 28 This Mustering up of Multitudes, is an old Trick they learn'd from the Committee of Safety.

1661 J. Davies Civil Warres 373 This utterly dissipated the power of the new sprung Committee of Safety.

a1683 P. Warwick Mem. Reign Charles I (1701) 408 And now the Men of the Armyes party raise a Committee of Safety of twenty three persons, to execute all the powers of the late Council of State.

1704 in C. J. Hoadly Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1868) IV. 462 They or any three of them convened to have full power to act in all affairs proper for a committee of safetie in their countie.

1741 Hist. Ess. Londoners in Publick Affairs 44 All Power being vested in the Commons; and thence retrusted necessarily to a few of them (a Committee of Safety).

1775 Extracts Jrnl. Proc. Provinc. Congr. New-Jersey 29 All officers above the rank of a captain..be appointed by the Congress, or during, their recess, by the committee of safety.

1775 Extracts Jrnl. Proc. Provinc. Congr. New-Jersey 41 That it be recommended to each colony, to appoint a committee of safety, to superintend and direct all matters necessary for..security and defence.

1799 Votes House of Assembly Jamaica, 6th Session 59 Ordered, That the evidence taken before the secret committee of safety, and laid before the house during the last session, be printed.

1849 R. Bell Memorials Civil War II. 3 The Parliamentary Committee of Safety is re-empowered.

1896 H. A. Cushing Hist. Transition Provinc. to Commonw. Govt. Mass. v. §3. 139 Provision was made for the transaction of a part of the administrative business devolving on the Congress, by the appointment of a Committee of Safety.

1911 S. J. M. Low & F. S. Pulling Dict. Eng. Hist. 689/2 Parliament entrusted the conduct of the war to a Committee of Safety of ten commoners and five lords sitting at Derby House.

1995 M. Mendle Henry Parker & Eng. Civil War (2002) i. 19 A council of state for war and foreign policy..bears an uncanny likeness to the Committee of Safety of the early war years.

2011 H. M. Ward For Virginia & for Independence xxvii. 166 In July 1775 Davies was named secretary of the Norfolk Committee of Safety.

Committee of the Whole House (also Committee of the Whole; also with lower-case initials) a committee (sense 1b) formed of all the members of a legislative or deliberative body sitting to consider a proposal, measure, bill, etc.In the British Parliament, the committee stage of all public Bills in the House of Lords takes place in a committee of the whole House; in the Commons the committee stage is normally taken by a standing committee, but major Bills are sometimes referred instead to a whole House committee. The U.S. House of Representatives may sit as a committee (officially called the Committee of the whole House on the State of the Union but more usually referred to as the Committee of the Whole) in order to be able to suspend its usual rules and move ahead quickly on major bills.

ΚΠ

1620 Orig. Jrnls. House of Lords 24 Apr. 3 82/2 The Lords will give Meeting unto the Commons..in the Painted Chamber, with a Committee of the whole House.

1689 E. Bohun tr. J. Sleidane Gen. Hist. Reformation of Church vi. 103 They understood there was a Committee of the whole appointed to confer among themselves about the matters proposed.

1702 W. Nicolson London Diaries 22 Dec. (1985) 150 The Money-Bill read a second time, and Committed to a Committee of the whole House.

1776 Extracts Jrnl. Proc. Provinc. Congr. S.-Carolina 1 Feb. 103 The Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the Committee of the whole, on a plan or form of government.

1803 Cobbett's Ann. Reg. 3 814 Order of the day for a committee of the whole on the consolidation of the Custom-Duties.

1834 Hist. Congr. I. v. 514 This motion was committed to a committee of the whole house.

1921 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 15 377 The rule permitting the House to go into committee of the whole House to consider business on the private calendar.

1950 Times 27 Nov. 6/7 The Bill will then be considered by a committee of the whole House.

2001 S. Bach in N. O. Sneider House of Representatives U.S. iii. 46 The House transacts much of its business on the floor by resolving itself into the Committee of the Whole—formally, the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union.

2010 Toronto Star (Nexis) 19 May b1 He had chaired the committee of the whole at the second United Nations conference on biodiversity in 1995.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

committee business n.

ΚΠ

1777 Let. in S. Johnson et al. Minutes of Evid. on 2nd Reading Bill Inflicting Pains & Penalties on Sir T. Rumbold (1783) 21 The Committee Business has been much impeded of late, by the Village Conicoplies being kept from us in an unusual Manner.

1828 Daily National Jrnl. (Washington, D.C.) 13 Mar. He is often driven from a very great portion of unfinished committee business into the Senate, to form a quorum at 12 o'clock.

1905 H. G. Wells Kipps i. iii. 70 Occasionally Mr. Chester Coote..would come into the class..ostensibly on committee business, but in reality to talk to the less attractive one of the two girl students.

2011 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 13 Sept. 13 The week begins with committee business with football, devolution and Creative Scotland on the agenda.

committee chairmanship n.

ΚΠ

1855 Liverpool Mercury 14 Nov. 4/3 (heading) The dock committee—value of a sub-committee chairmanship.]

1861 O. J. Victor Hist. Southern Rebellion II. v. 33/1 On the 6th, the Committee Chairmanships were announced by the Vice-President.

1931 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 6 Dec. 22/5 In addition to her committee chairmanship, Miss Mariatt is also serving on correlation committees on research and technological development.

2007 J. Maskell in C. S. Plesser Congr. of U.S. iv. 181 A Member who has been convicted of a felony..loses his or her committee chairmanship.

committee chamber n.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > meeting of > place of

committee chamber1581

committee room1646

1581 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 9 Feb. 2 f. 123 To consider p[rese]ntly of the bill in the comyttee chamber of this house.

1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 44 I was admitted into the Committe-chamber.

1774 Town & Country Mag. Feb. 69/1 The committee appointed to try the merits of Sir Watkin L–wes' petition, met..in the new committee chamber.

1899 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 13 102 The establishment of public sessions for all committees, with special committee chambers.

2010 ‘D. Gregory’ Last Christian xlvi. 365 As an officer approached him to administer the oath, I heard the door to the committee chamber open.

committee day n.

ΚΠ

1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright (1855) 84 Johne Gordone..undertakes to produce his sone..at the next Committie day.

1745 Mr. Innes Charitable Corporation Vindicated 38 The Secretary or Cashire is on the next Committee-day to pay each Committee-man who has made such Inspection..one Guinea for that service.

1823 Rep. Select Comm. Penitentiary at Millbank 36 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 533) V. 403 The address of this letter is, ‘To the Visitor for the time being at General Penitentiary, or to Geo. Holford, Esq.’ dated the 8th of February, the committee day.

2008 M. Bostridge Florence Nightingale viii. 198 A year after her return from the Crimean War, she returned there on a committee day, ‘where all received her with the greatest reverence & affection’.

committee meeting n.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > meeting of

committee1643

committee meeting1746

1746 Proc. King's Comm. Peace London & Middlesex 5–9 Dec. ii. ii. 67/1 He said he would..see me again at the next Committee-Meeting.

1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow II. xxviii. 123 My father is gone to a committee meeting.

1948 E. Waugh Loved One 139 We had a committee meeting last night and your name was mentioned.

2003 J. M. Boss & S. H. Eckert Acad. Scientists at Work iii. 46 One way that committee meetings lose their focus is through the regaling of anecdotal stories or complaints.

committee room n.

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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > meeting of > place of

committee chamber1581

committee room1646

1646 R. Bacon Spirit of Prelacie 5 Master Shepherd..with the Major of the City in the evening, privatly in the Committee room, spent a long time in perswading mee to depart that place.

1772 Town & Country Mag. Feb. 93/1 Passing a Committee-room, where only one member was holding a committee.

1864 Daily Tel. 6 Apr. There was a committee-room, which..had been converted into a bar, and there the consumption of rum-punches was enormous.

2011 Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 6/6 During an epic all-night sitting in the House of Lords..peers were able to use camp beds set up in committee rooms to catch up on sleep between votes.

b. Designating a person who is a member of, or holds a post on, a committee.See also committee chair n., committeeman n., committee-woman n. at Compounds 2.

committee chairman n.

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1760 Rules & Orders Soc. Encouragem. Arts, Manuf. & Commerce (new ed.) 18 Any other Member shall be appointed by the Committee Chairman for the occasion.

1882 Times 26 Dec. 6/2 The system [sc. of standing committees in the United States Congress] creates a sort of oligarchy of committee chairmen.

1946 Pop. Photogr. May 115/2 The committee chairman then calls the meeting into a more formal session.

2005 J. B. Cheaney My Friend Enemy 13 We were split down the middle... Margie, the committee chairman, couldn't make up her mind.

committee chairperson n.

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1971 Amer. Sociologist 6 193/1 Sociologists for Women in Society..met..for the purpose of adopting constitutional by-laws and electing temporary officers and committee chairpersons.

1995 Irish Times 8 Apr. 12/5 The televising of committees will take..accountability a step further... Not all committee chairpersons will rise to the challenge.

2006 R. Calland Anat. of South Afr. iv. 93 The role of the committee chairperson is critical to the new parliament's well-being and relevance.

committee chairwoman n.

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1899 Irish World & Amer. Industr. Liberator 1 July 11/4 The Sacred Heart Alumnae and Literary Association has been formed... Committee chairwomen are: Miss Heffran, programme..; Mrs. George M. Savage, finance.

1980 Copeia No. 4. 957/2 Committee Chairwoman, Marvalee Wake, introduced the Committee's report by summarizing its chief concerns during the past year.

2004 N.Y. Times 27 Oct. b9/1 The committee chairwoman..pressed the official..on why the new arts curriculum, adopted over the summer, has yet to reach all classrooms.

committee member n.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > member of

committee1571

committeeman1642

committee member1648

1648 W. Powell News for Newters 29 If some Countrey Committee-Members..were left to be their own Judges, they would passe sentence of condemnation against themselves.

1771 Charter-party (Benevolent Annuity-Company Dublin) 36 The Company shall proceed to the Election..of a new President, Secretary, or Committee Member.

1887 16th Ann. Rep. Local Governm. Board 1886–87 App. 127 in Parl. Papers (C. 5131) XXXVI. 1 More than one committee member has urged me to say that I was ‘satisfied’ or ‘approved’ of certain homes.

1948 Internat. Organization 2 54 The twelfth recommendation..was accepted by all committee members.

2001 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 6 Dec. (Neighbors East section) 10/3 Coppola thanked committee members for their patience during her tenure.

committee secretary n.

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1820 Morning Post 17 May 1 Tickets, 15s each, to be had of the Stewards, the Treasurer, Committee Secretary, and at the Bar of the Tavern.

1953 Oak Leaves (Oak Park, Illinois) 19 Mar. 61/2 Mrs. Herbert Boehm received acknowledgment for her splendid work in the past year as committee secretary.

2014 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 25 June 43 The Trade Union Corporate Committee and C.S.E.U. Reps, are deeply sadden by the death of our Committee Secretary, friend and colleague, Brian.

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committee boat n. (in a yacht or boat race) a boat from which members of the organizing committee watch and judge the race.

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1828 Argus 8 July 60/3 Sailing match... To slip from their moorings off the town, to sail round the Preventative Boat, stationed off Hylam, and return to the Committee-boat.

1912 Motor Boating Sept. 37/1 Their racing number will be displayed from the committee boat 30 seconds before they are due to start.

1977 Computerworld 23 May 13/1 The safety boats and committee boats left shore each morning with the most up-to-date list of boats competing.

2000 S. Webb Three Times Lady viii. 87 The finishing line was between the mark and the committee boat and spectator boats of all shapes and sizes littered the water nearby.

committee chair n. the position or role of the person chosen to preside over a committee; the chairperson of a committee; see chair n.¹ 9.Earliest and frequently with reference to the chairmanship of the House of Commons when sitting as a committee (see sense 1b).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > president or chairperson of

presidenta1382

prolocutor1570

moderator1573

spokesman1607

committee chair1643

chairman1654

referendary1655

speaker1656

chair1659

convener1681

chairperson1971

1643 R.E. Let. written out of Country to J. Pym 2 If any Ordinance of Parliament hath bin ordained..how have we cried it up, as proceeding from the infallible Committee Chaire, as if wee had tyed our faith to their sleeves.

1682 T. D'Urfey et al. Whig's Exalt. (single sheet) iv The Whigs shall Rule Committee Chair, Who will such Laws Invent, As shall Exclude the Lawful Heir By Act of Parliament.

1780 Yorks. Freeholder 10 Feb. 20 The Gentleman who originally moved the petition at the general County Meeting.., was called unanimously to Committee Chair.

1890 Speaker 8 Mar. 246/2 Mr. Courtney is one of the strongest presidents..that has ever been seen, either in the Great Chair or the Committee Chair of the House of Commons.

1968 Bay State Banner (Boston, Mass.) 4 Jan. 1 Bernstein was elected to the Committee chair at the same meeting.

2010 D. A. Ritchie U.S. Congr.: Very Short Introd. iii. 51 In 2001... The Speaker had to order the committee chairs to negotiate with each other until they reached a compromise.

† committee cut n. slang Obsolete a closely-cropped hairstyle favoured by Puritan supporters of Parliament in the English Civil War; cf. Committee of Safety n. (a) at Phrases 2a.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > cut or cropped

roundinga1582

stumps1584

stubs1607

trim1608

tonsure1650

committee cut1691

rasure1737

crop1795

county crop1839

flat-top1859

prison cropc1863

clip1889

Dartmoor crop1930

razor cut1940

prison haircut1948

scissor cut1948

cut1951

pudding basin1951

short back and sides1965

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 743 They mostly had short hair, which at this time was commonly called the Committee cut.

1774 J. Granger Suppl. to Biogr. Hist. Eng. 259 The hair of the ‘committee cut’, as it was called, was remarkably short.

1839 E. Pickering Prince & Pedlar III. iii. 79 The Roundhead officer was a fair and rather good-looking man..whose hair, if not exactly of the committee cut, yet boasted not the flowing ringlets of the Cavaliers.

committee hearing n. (a) a hearing held before a committee; (b) spec. a meeting of a committee appointed by a legislative body, at which evidence is taken from experts and interested parties on a particular matter being considered by the committee; cf. sense 1b.

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1845 Boston Post 24 June In England at the present time..in the case of the rival Newcastle, Berwick and Northumberland lines £50,000 were expended in committee hearings alone.

1889 N.Y. Times 30 Dec. 1/3 More trouble in the Ninth Ward schools... A stormy scene at a committee hearing.

1924 Times 2 May 12/5 (heading) The Admiral said nothing which had not already been said to Congress during the Committee hearings on the Supply Bill.

1937 Rep. Select Comm. Private Bill Procedure 77/1 in Parl. Papers 1936–7 (H.C. 112) VIII. 399 The Special Committee..set up..for the purpose of splitting into two a single Bill, involving two Committee hearings on one Bill.

2013 T. Daschle & C. Robbins U.S. Senate iii. xxviii. 117 A senator can give a lobbyist a chance to showcase his views..by slating him to testify at a committee hearing.

committeeman n. a man or (occasionally) a woman who belongs to a committee or committees; a member of a committee.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > member of

committee1571

committeeman1642

committee member1648

1642 Orders Comm. Militia Middlesex (single sheet) The severall Captains and Committee-men..do select and place in chief within their List, the prime men that serve with their own Arms.

1793 T. Pennant Lit. Life 107 I objected in that letter..to all party-associations, and for myself decline the honors of committee-man.

1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. I. v. 27 The deputies..were anciently called committee-men; each town being said to send a committee or deputation to the legislature.

1920 Everybody's Mag. Nov. 86/2 The morning session was over;..the wide verandas were thick with speakers, committeemen, delegates, super-delegates and reporters.

1997 Daily Herald (Chicago) 20 Mar. (DuPage County ed.) i. 9/3 She became a committeeman and ascended to chairwoman soon after.

2008 Indianapolis Star 11 Jan. (State ed.) b8/2 On Sunday, Republican 7th District precinct committeemen and ward chairmen will gather to hear from candidates.

committee report n. (a) a report prepared by or for a committee; (b) spec. a report presented to a legislative body containing the conclusions of a committee appointed to consider a particular matter, esp. proposed legislation; cf. sense 1b.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > reporting > [noun] > a report > formal

report1581

return1618

annual report1724

committee report1776

communiqué1852

working paper1945

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > state, government, or parliamentary papers > [noun] > report of parliamentary committee

report?1576

committee report1837

1776 Morning Chron. 20 Sept. The committee report was read, That they had, at the request of the Association, waited upon Mr. Alderman Oliver.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. ii. i. 101 There comes Committee Report on that Decree..and speech of repealing it.

1908 Hansard Commons 23 Nov. 1839 The whole of that Committee Report was devoted to..lightening the load on the ratepayers.

2001 N.Y. Times 28 June a20/1 Ms. Thernstrom said..that the committee report was flawed and prejudicial.

committee stage n. originally and chiefly British Parliament (in a legislative assembly) the stage in the passage of a bill at which it is examined in detail, debated, and amended by a committee; also figurative.In the British Parliament, a bill enters the committee stage after the second reading and before the report stage.

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1805 Parl. Deb. 1st ser. 5 249 The Loyalty Loan.., and the Irish Militia bills, went through the committee stages, and were ordered to be reported to-morrow.

1890 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 13 Jan. 2/5 The most perceptible progress in the work of legislation in Congress is still shown in the committee stage.

1976 M. Frayn Alphabet. Order ii. 47 Leslie. I told her we were thinking of getting married. John. Oh. Yes, well, it's still as it were at the committee stage.

2010 Home Affairs Comm.: National DNA Database: 8th Rep. I. i. 3 in Parl. Papers 2009–10 (H.C. 222-I) At the time of writing, this Bill has completed its Committee stage and is about to come back to the House of Commons for the Report stage.

committee system n. a system involving deliberation by a committee or committees; spec. a parliamentary or legislative system in which committees (sense 1b) play an integral part.

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1675 T. C. Vindiciae Pharmacapolae (single sheet) 'Tis not long agon.., The Lawyers left their Littletons, to Found Committee Systems on Rebellion's ground.

1818 Bury & Norwich Post 10 June In adverting to the Committee system [sc. of the Norwich Union Fire and Life Society], it was reported that the number of Committees was gradually increasing.

1842 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 555/2 This is the first great defect of the Committee system of the House of Commons.

1913 Factory May 488/2 The system..for authorizing..the production of new lines of product..may be regarded as typical of all committee systems.

1954 N.Y. Times 21 Mar. e4/1 The American Congress is run on the committee system.

2004 A. McConnell Sc. Local Governm. iv. 69 Executive decision-making..is the responsibility of democratically elected councillors (organised through the committee system).

committee-woman n. a woman who belongs to a committee or committees; a female committee member.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > member of > woman

committee-woman1724

1724 Plain Dealer 16 Nov. I am credibly inform'd, by an Able Committee-Woman, of our Assembly, That she is intimate with Two of them.

1868 W. Collins Moonstone II. ii. 188 A venerable committee-woman at the Mothers'-Small-Clothes.

1965 J. Porter Dover Three vi. 66 Dame Alice was an experienced committee woman and never used one word if ten would do.

2013 Scotsman (Nexis) 27 Sept. 29 Like a good committee-woman, she seems to have a gift for..keeping her mind focused on real problems and possible solutions.

Derivatives

coˈmmitteeism n. organization by means of a committee or committees; behaviour or attitudes typical of committees or their members.

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1850 Ohio Observer (Hudson, Ohio) 3 July If Presbyterianism or committeeism is of God, we should expect to find something of it in the New Testament.

1912 Homiletic Rev. Jan. 203/2 There is great danger of going to seed on organization and ‘committeeism’.

2004 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 8 Oct. 66 Blogs are harder to do when you're constrained by committeeism. I couldn't imagine doing my blog if I had to have it checked by other people before publishing.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	committee
释义	committeen.¹ Brit. /ˌkɒmᵻˈtiː/, U.S. /ˌkɑməˈti/ Forms: late Middle English commyttee, late Middle English–1600s commitee, 1500s comittie, 1500s commytte, 1500s–1600s committie, 1500s–1600s comyttee, 1500s–1600s comyttie, 1500s– committee, 1600s comittee, 1600s committe. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: commit v., -ee suffix¹. Etymology: < commit v. + -ee suffix¹. Compare committee n.²Originally the same word as committee n.², now usually distinguished in pronunciation. The senses at this entry normally retain the original stress pattern, with the main stress on the final syllable, although some variation may have been found in earlier use (compare the metrical evidence of quot. 1606 at sense 1a). With sense 2, compare earlier committeeship n.² 1. †a. A person to whom some task, duty, or office is entrusted or delegated; a person commissioned or appointed to do something. Obsolete except as in sense 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > one to whom a commission is given commissary1395 commissioner1414 committee1472 commissionar1496 commissionary1555 commis1573 commissionaire1641 commissionee1647 commissaire1791 commendatary1852 commish1871 1472–3 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 1st Roll §55. m. 8 Your said suppliaunt, his deputees, commyttees, and his grauntees of the same, were not of power to resiste [etc.]. 1495 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1495 §56. m. 31 The kinges commitees or his patentees for the kepyng of the seid toun. 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xii. f. 23 The garden or his commytte or graunte shall tende, and offre mariage to the warde. 1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 547 The Bishop of Rome hath beene made the Committie of diuerse Councels, to receiue the subscription. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 133 The Comittie, or Purueyour generall, who hath charge to prouide all Bastiments, prouision, and other necessarie things. 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xv. xcvi. 383 By great, by needy Mal-Contents, by Credulous, and Vitious, Work Romes Committees. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 331 Nicholas Wotton..thrise chosen a Committee about peace between the English, French, and Scotish. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Committee, he to whom a matter is committed to be ordered or decided. b. One of a group of people jointly entrusted with some task, duty, or office; a member of a body appointed or elected for a specific function; a member of a committee (committee n.² 1). Usually in plural. Now rare (historical in later use).After the 17th cent. chiefly in Lords committees, collectively denoting the members of a House of Lords committee or subcommittee, as distinct from the whole House considered as a committee (cf. subcommittee n.¹), and in specialized applications with reference to particular groups, as the 24 directors elected annually by the East India Company to manage its affairs, or the body of 21 people originally responsible for the financial management and appointment of governors at Guy’s Hospital (cf. court of committees at court n.¹ 14). ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > one to whom a commission is given > one of a body of committee1571 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > member of committee1571 committeeman1642 committee member1648 1571 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 26 Apr. 2 f. 20^v The comyttees for the bill of fugitives are appointed to meet in the Star-chamber at three of the clock to morrow in the afternoon. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. viii. 174/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The bill is put to certeine committees to be amended. 1617 T. Roe Let. 6 Dec. in Embassy of Sir T. Roe to Court of Great Mogul (1899) II. 434 By virtue of the King's authoritie giuen vnto mee his Ambassador..by the Committes of the Honourable Company of East India Merchants. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. (1809) vii. 11 These committees when they meet, they elect one of them to sit in the chair in likenesse of the speaker. 1708 A. Boyer Hist. Reign Queen Anne: Year the Sixth App. 129 The Lords Committees ordered him to attend again: and he was farther examined in relation to the Facts mentioned in the Answer. 1725 Act 11 Geo. I (Guy's Hospital) The several persons herein-after named..are hereby declared to be the President, Treasurer, and one and twenty Committees of the said hereby erected Corporation. 1764 Vindic. Mr. Holwell's Char. 13 After electing their Chairman and Deputy, and appointing the several Committees, Captain Tullie moved, that an express should be immediately dispatched to Portsmouth. 1772 J. Ayloffe Cal. Anc. Charters Introd. p. xliii The reports made by the lords committees 1st and 22nd of May 1725. 1838 Mirror of Parl. (1st Sess., 13th Parl.) 6 5005/1 The Committee to be proposed by the Lords' Committees appointed for proposing Committees on Opposed Bills. 1888 C. Robinson & R. A. Brock Abstr. Proc. Virginia Company London 1619–1624 4 The committees and auditors were chosen also. 1892 S. Wilks Biogr. Hist. Guy's Hosp. ii. i. 76 The president or treasurer and any seven committees were to be a full Court of Committees, and to have power to sell or dispose of any of the Hospital estates. 1965 R. C. Prasad Early Eng. Travellers in India v. 136 The ‘Committees’ (or, as we should say, Directors) of the Company made a petition to King James to command Roe to proceed..as a special plenipotentiary to the court of Jahangir. 1974 R. H. Mead In Sunshine of Life iii. 58 The minutes of the Committees of Guy's Hospital, April 6, 1725, contains this item. 2. A person given legal responsibility for or guardianship of another person or his or her affairs, usually because of mental incapacity. Cf. commit v. 2, committeeship n.² Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > entrusting to another's care or keeping > putting incapable person into another's care > one to whom committee1762 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > one who looks after > guardian of minor or incapable person > of mentally incapable person committee1762 1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves II. xiv. 32 This was a charge of lunacy, in consequence of which he hoped to..be appointed sole committee of her person. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. viii. 294 If he be found non compos, he [sc. the Lord Chancellor] usually commits the care of his person..to some friend, who is then called his committee. 1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xvii. 118 The powers given by the Act..may be exercised by guardians for infants, by committees for lunatics. 1884 Times 27 Oct. 4/5 She was the committee of the lunatic. 1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 2 Aug. 11/1 An exparte application of the Committee of an incompetent person for an order granting it authority. 2014 Ontario Rep. 3rd Ser. 120 657 The appellants..asked the court to declare Angelo mentally incompetent and to appoint them as committees of Angelo's person and estate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). committeen.² Brit. /kəˈmɪti/, U.S. /kəˈmɪdi/ Forms: 1500s comyttee, 1500s–1600s comitty, 1500s–1600s committy, 1500s–1700s comittee, 1500s–1800s commitee, 1600s comittie, 1600s committe, 1600s–1700s commitie, 1600s–1700s committie, 1600s– committee, 1700s comitee, 1700s comitte; also Scottish pre-1700 commitie, pre-1700 committey, pre-1700 committie, 1800s comma-tee, 1900s– comatee; also Irish English (northern) 2000s– comatee. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: committee n.¹ Etymology: Originally a variant of committee n.¹, now usually distinguished in pronunciation.Compare French comité (1650 as committée ; < English). The original stress pattern with the main stress on the final syllable is retained by committee n.¹ (and occasionally by committee n.² in Scots). The pronunciation with stress on the penultimate syllable (now standard for the senses at this entry) is found in verse from the early 17th cent. (compare quot. 1606 at committee n.¹ 1a) and is suggested by forms like committy (compare -y suffix⁵) which are attested from the mid 16th cent. (compare quot. 1566 at sense 1a); its origin is uncertain, and may be due to association of the word in senses relating to a group or body of people with classical Latin comitium comitia n. (compare comices n.). 1. a. A body of two or more persons appointed, elected, or established to perform a particular function; esp. a group of people selected by a larger body (as a society, corporation, public meeting, etc.), and typically consisting of members of that body, established for the purpose of carrying out a specific task, duty, or office on a permanent or temporary basis.Compare committee n.¹ 1b which refers to the individual members of such a body. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee committee1566 leet1665 board1909 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > committee of whole legislative assembly committee1566 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > parliamentary committees committee1566 grand committee1606 Ned1961 Neddy1962 little Neddy1963 little Ned1964 1566 R. Horne Answeare M. J. Fekenham f. 32^v The Iudges seeinge the exclamations and confusion..appointeth a Committy, choosinge foorth of sundry partes a certaine number to goe aside with the Iudges, to make a resolution. 1651 W. Birchley Christian Moderator 24 Why do we not erect a Committee to purchase souls, as we have Contracters to sell Lands? 1675 J. Ogilby Britannia Introd. 4 The East India Company..Regulated by a Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Committee of 24 Assistants. 1706 T. Baker Hampstead Heath i. i. 5 And what signifies your Reforming Society? The noble Exploit of demolishing a poor Sunday Apple-Stall,..and your Committees for suppressing Bartholomew Fair. 1779 J. Jay in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) II. 283 The Committee..fluctuates, new members constantly coming in, and old ones going out. 1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 356 The subscribers met, and named a Committee of administration to regulate the expences. 1871 J. Ruskin Munera Pulveris (1880) 11 I had the honour of being on the committee..for the victualling of Paris after her surrender. 1922 G. K. Chesterton Man who knew too Much vii. 192 Don't you think agricultural laborers would rather have three acres and a cow than three acres of printed forms and a committee? 1968 Science 9 Feb. 660/2 A World Health Organization (WHO) committee is being formed to discuss and formulate terminology. 2011 M. Whyman Oink 270 ‘I'm here about the village fete,’ he pressed on. ‘The committee was hoping you could help out on the face-painting stall once more.’ b. spec. A body appointed by a legislative or deliberative assembly to consider a particular matter or perform a particular function; esp. one established to conduct an inquiry into an issue and present a report or set of recommendations to the assembly as a whole, or one responsible for examining, debating, and suggesting amendments to proposed legislation (cf. committee stage n. at Compounds 2).grand committee, joint committee, select committee, special committee, standing committee: see the first element. See also Committee of Ways and Means at ways and means n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > other types of committee committee1571 council of war1590 special committee1606 standing committeea1632 Committee of Safety1642 working party1744 finance committee1783 Board (also Court) of county commissioners1806 business committee1825 national committee1826 watch committee1835 working group1888 Central Committee1917 action committee1918 action group1927 ombuds-committee1964 PESC1969 1571 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 6 Apr. 2 f. 11^v Upon a motion for unyformytie of religion and the mentor of certain bills..a comyttee is by the house appointed. 1626 J. Mede Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 225 The Commons having chosen a Committee of Eight..to deliver some fourteen Articles against him unto the Lords. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 239 Shortly after the beginning of the Parliament, there had been a Committee appointed to prepare and draw up a general Remonstrance of the state of the Kingdom. 1792 T. H. B. Oldfield Entire Hist. Great Brit. II. 117 They however derived, from this appeal, the privilege of proving their rateability to a committee of the house of commons. a1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1853) I. 10 Their report..which, not being liked, the House recommitted it, on the 26th, and added Mr. Dickinson and myself to the committee. 1855 Maquoketa (Iowa) Sentinel 15 Feb. Mr. Mallory's bill from the Committee on Naval affairs was taken up and passed. 1898 Daily News 23 Apr. 8/2 The ordered business of the day was Committee of Supply on the Civil Service Estimates. 1945 W. S. Churchill Victory (1946) 28 The Committee have now finished their labours, and their Report is before us. 1966 D. G. Tacheron & M. K. Udall Job of Congressman vi. 154 Each party has a Committee on Committees that is responsible for assignment of newly elected members and for reassignment of members who wish to transfer from one committee to another. 2014 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 18 Nov. New Zealand First is boycotting a committee which will decide how the public votes on the national flag. c. A group of people who come together in order to discuss and take action on a matter of mutual interest or concern; a society or organization dedicated to the promotion of a particular cause or object. ΚΠ 1820 2nd Ann. Rep. Managers Soc. Prevention Pauperism N.-Y. 34 Having formed a committee of ladies, to unite with her in carrying on her system of reformation, Mrs. Fry visits the prison frequently. 1899 Chinese Recorder Nov. 554 A number of distinguished gentlemen had organized themselves into a committee to raise..£3,000..for an exposition building. 1909 T. Seltzer tr. H. Sudermann Song of Songs iii. 27 The means for saving him would have to be obtained privately. ‘Let's form a committee,’ one girl proposed, and the others seconded enthusiastically. 1936 N.Y. Times 9 Mar. 21/1 Formation of a committee to organize opposition to the appointment of William Furtwaengler..as general musical director of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society, was announced yesterday. 2004 D. O. Russell in D. O. Russell & J. Baena I heart Huckabees 127 I organized a kids committee to campaign for Humphrey against Nixon when I was ten years old. 2. A meeting or session of such a body. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > meeting of committee1643 committee meeting1746 1643 J. Row Kirk-Session Bk. Carnock 29 Jan. in Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow Soc.) (1842) p. xx I was to go to Edinburgh to attend the committey of the Parliament. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 14 June (1972) VII. 166 Away to White-hall to a committee for Tanger—where the Duke of York was and Sir W. Coventry, and a very full committee. 1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 124 This Day a Committee was held. 1742 H. Walpole Lett. to H. Mann 22 Jan. I. 78 The night of the Committee, my brother had got invalids at his house. 1779 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 XIV. 424 Mr. Barker, who was chairman on the last day of the committee, knew nothing of this promise. 1889 M. J. Serrano tr. M. Bashkirtseff Jrnl. Young Artist 378 Well, how did things go at the committee? 1900 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 114 47/1 The honourable gentleman was ungenerous enough to say I did not attend the Committee when the Bill was under consideration. 1955 W. H. Beveridge Power & Infl. xiv. 302 The National Conference of Friendly Societies gave oral evidence formally on February 25 when, for the first and last time, I was absent from the Committee through indisposition. 2014 Lebanon (Tennessee) Democrat (Nexis) 27 May The last day of the committee was closing down before the attorney general's opinion came in. Phrases P1. a. to go into (†a, † the) committee. (a) Of a deliberative body, esp. Parliament: to convert itself into a committee for some purpose; to become a committee in order to debate or deliberate on (also upon) a bill. Cf. Committee of the Whole House at Phrases 2b.See also resolve v. 10b.With quot. 1685, cf. grand committee n. at grand adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1685 in King James II Speech 30 May 2 The House went into a Grand Committee to Consider further of a Supply for His Majesty. 1702 R. Cocks Diary 29 Apr. (1996) 274 We went into the Committee upon the privateer bill. 1823 New Monthly Mag. 9 293/1 The House went into a Committee on the..Bill. 1868 London Rev. 27 June 636/2 On Tuesday the Lords will go into Committee upon the Reform Bill for Scotland. 1940 Manch. Guardian 23 May 2/6 The bill was read a second time without a division and the House went into Committee upon it. 1992 Irish Times 19 May 11/3 The House has gone into committee on this Bill, and I am precluded from appointment. (b) Of a bill, etc.: to be examined or debated by a committee (sense 1b); to pass to the committee stage (committee stage n. at Compounds 2). ΚΠ 1718 A. Boyer Polit. State Great Brit. Feb. 197 The Opposers..endeavour'd to stave off the Bill before it went into a Committee. 1823 New Monthly Mag. 9 290/1 The..Bill went into a committee. 1919 L. S. Fanning Politics & Public 68 The Liquor Restriction Bill went into committee on 21st September, 1917. 2014 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 18 Feb. 2 The council met trade union representatives and briefed staff in advance of the proposals going to committee. b. in committee. (a) Of a deliberative body: acting or deliberating as a committee; in session as a committee. Cf. Phrases 2b. ΚΠ 1646 J. Taylor Briefe Rel. Idiotismes & Absurdities M. Corbet 14 Some Aldermen, some Common-Councell men, (In number twelve) sate in Committee then. 1832 W. Owen Let. 1 Mar. in C. Darwin Corr. (1985) I. 212 The Reform Bill..is again undergoing a tedious debating in Committee of the Commons. 1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. lviii. 285 Many nights of discussion were occupied in committee. 1907 Times 30 Aug. 3/5 The House in committee already caused the Government to view with grave anxiety the approach of the decisive plenary discussion. 1988 Parl. Affairs 41 391 In the Lords all public bills are considered in committee on the floor of the House. 2005 S. Pape & S. Featherstone Newspaper Journalism vi. 96 The press and public will be asked to leave if anything is to be discussed ‘in committee’. (b) Of a bill: under consideration by a committee (sense 1b); in the committee stage (committee stage n. at Compounds 2). ΚΠ 1653 C. Hotham Brief Acct. Proc. Comm. Reformation Universities (single sheet) The Question being then in Committee only concerning his Printed Book. 1775 J. Macpherson Hist. Great Brit. II. iv. 174 While yet the bill remained in committee, another incident added uneasiness to resentment in the breast of William. 1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds III. lxxx. 348 His great measure was even now in committee. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 30 June 2/2 The Coercion Bill (1887) was allowed 15 days in Committee before the application of the guillotine. 1910 J. London Theft ii. 104 Gifford How's that compensation act coming on? Knox (Wearily.) The same old story. It will never come before the House. It is dying in committee. 1963 J. A. DeNovo Amer. Interests in Middle East 157 When Congress adjourned on June 12 the treaty was still in committee. 2011 Guardian (Nexis) 5 Oct. 9 An amendment that, if passed, would effectively stall the bill in committee. P2. a. Committee of Safety n. now historical any of various official committees set up to oversee security in a time of war or instability; spec. (a) English History any of several committees set up in times of emergency by Parliament or Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War and Interregnum; (b) U.S. History any of various committees established in the American colonies as an alternative to colonial authorities during the American Revolution. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > other types of committee committee1571 council of war1590 special committee1606 standing committeea1632 Committee of Safety1642 working party1744 finance committee1783 Board (also Court) of county commissioners1806 business committee1825 national committee1826 watch committee1835 working group1888 Central Committee1917 action committee1918 action group1927 ombuds-committee1964 PESC1969 1642 R. L'Estrange Relaps'd Apostate Note X. 28 This Mustering up of Multitudes, is an old Trick they learn'd from the Committee of Safety. 1661 J. Davies Civil Warres 373 This utterly dissipated the power of the new sprung Committee of Safety. a1683 P. Warwick Mem. Reign Charles I (1701) 408 And now the Men of the Armyes party raise a Committee of Safety of twenty three persons, to execute all the powers of the late Council of State. 1704 in C. J. Hoadly Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1868) IV. 462 They or any three of them convened to have full power to act in all affairs proper for a committee of safetie in their countie. 1741 Hist. Ess. Londoners in Publick Affairs 44 All Power being vested in the Commons; and thence retrusted necessarily to a few of them (a Committee of Safety). 1775 Extracts Jrnl. Proc. Provinc. Congr. New-Jersey 29 All officers above the rank of a captain..be appointed by the Congress, or during, their recess, by the committee of safety. 1775 Extracts Jrnl. Proc. Provinc. Congr. New-Jersey 41 That it be recommended to each colony, to appoint a committee of safety, to superintend and direct all matters necessary for..security and defence. 1799 Votes House of Assembly Jamaica, 6th Session 59 Ordered, That the evidence taken before the secret committee of safety, and laid before the house during the last session, be printed. 1849 R. Bell Memorials Civil War II. 3 The Parliamentary Committee of Safety is re-empowered. 1896 H. A. Cushing Hist. Transition Provinc. to Commonw. Govt. Mass. v. §3. 139 Provision was made for the transaction of a part of the administrative business devolving on the Congress, by the appointment of a Committee of Safety. 1911 S. J. M. Low & F. S. Pulling Dict. Eng. Hist. 689/2 Parliament entrusted the conduct of the war to a Committee of Safety of ten commoners and five lords sitting at Derby House. 1995 M. Mendle Henry Parker & Eng. Civil War (2002) i. 19 A council of state for war and foreign policy..bears an uncanny likeness to the Committee of Safety of the early war years. 2011 H. M. Ward For Virginia & for Independence xxvii. 166 In July 1775 Davies was named secretary of the Norfolk Committee of Safety. b. Committee of the Whole House (also Committee of the Whole; also with lower-case initials) a committee (sense 1b) formed of all the members of a legislative or deliberative body sitting to consider a proposal, measure, bill, etc.In the British Parliament, the committee stage of all public Bills in the House of Lords takes place in a committee of the whole House; in the Commons the committee stage is normally taken by a standing committee, but major Bills are sometimes referred instead to a whole House committee. The U.S. House of Representatives may sit as a committee (officially called the Committee of the whole House on the State of the Union but more usually referred to as the Committee of the Whole) in order to be able to suspend its usual rules and move ahead quickly on major bills. ΚΠ 1620 Orig. Jrnls. House of Lords 24 Apr. 3 82/2 The Lords will give Meeting unto the Commons..in the Painted Chamber, with a Committee of the whole House. 1689 E. Bohun tr. J. Sleidane Gen. Hist. Reformation of Church vi. 103 They understood there was a Committee of the whole appointed to confer among themselves about the matters proposed. 1702 W. Nicolson London Diaries 22 Dec. (1985) 150 The Money-Bill read a second time, and Committed to a Committee of the whole House. 1776 Extracts Jrnl. Proc. Provinc. Congr. S.-Carolina 1 Feb. 103 The Congress resumed the consideration of the report of the Committee of the whole, on a plan or form of government. 1803 Cobbett's Ann. Reg. 3 814 Order of the day for a committee of the whole on the consolidation of the Custom-Duties. 1834 Hist. Congr. I. v. 514 This motion was committed to a committee of the whole house. 1921 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 15 377 The rule permitting the House to go into committee of the whole House to consider business on the private calendar. 1950 Times 27 Nov. 6/7 The Bill will then be considered by a committee of the whole House. 2001 S. Bach in N. O. Sneider House of Representatives U.S. iii. 46 The House transacts much of its business on the floor by resolving itself into the Committee of the Whole—formally, the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union. 2010 Toronto Star (Nexis) 19 May b1 He had chaired the committee of the whole at the second United Nations conference on biodiversity in 1995. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. committee business n. ΚΠ 1777 Let. in S. Johnson et al. Minutes of Evid. on 2nd Reading Bill Inflicting Pains & Penalties on Sir T. Rumbold (1783) 21 The Committee Business has been much impeded of late, by the Village Conicoplies being kept from us in an unusual Manner. 1828 Daily National Jrnl. (Washington, D.C.) 13 Mar. He is often driven from a very great portion of unfinished committee business into the Senate, to form a quorum at 12 o'clock. 1905 H. G. Wells Kipps i. iii. 70 Occasionally Mr. Chester Coote..would come into the class..ostensibly on committee business, but in reality to talk to the less attractive one of the two girl students. 2011 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 13 Sept. 13 The week begins with committee business with football, devolution and Creative Scotland on the agenda. committee chairmanship n. ΚΠ 1855 Liverpool Mercury 14 Nov. 4/3 (heading) The dock committee—value of a sub-committee chairmanship.] 1861 O. J. Victor Hist. Southern Rebellion II. v. 33/1 On the 6th, the Committee Chairmanships were announced by the Vice-President. 1931 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 6 Dec. 22/5 In addition to her committee chairmanship, Miss Mariatt is also serving on correlation committees on research and technological development. 2007 J. Maskell in C. S. Plesser Congr. of U.S. iv. 181 A Member who has been convicted of a felony..loses his or her committee chairmanship. committee chamber n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > meeting of > place of committee chamber1581 committee room1646 1581 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 9 Feb. 2 f. 123 To consider p[rese]ntly of the bill in the comyttee chamber of this house. 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 44 I was admitted into the Committe-chamber. 1774 Town & Country Mag. Feb. 69/1 The committee appointed to try the merits of Sir Watkin L–wes' petition, met..in the new committee chamber. 1899 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 13 102 The establishment of public sessions for all committees, with special committee chambers. 2010 ‘D. Gregory’ Last Christian xlvi. 365 As an officer approached him to administer the oath, I heard the door to the committee chamber open. committee day n. ΚΠ 1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright (1855) 84 Johne Gordone..undertakes to produce his sone..at the next Committie day. 1745 Mr. Innes Charitable Corporation Vindicated 38 The Secretary or Cashire is on the next Committee-day to pay each Committee-man who has made such Inspection..one Guinea for that service. 1823 Rep. Select Comm. Penitentiary at Millbank 36 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 533) V. 403 The address of this letter is, ‘To the Visitor for the time being at General Penitentiary, or to Geo. Holford, Esq.’ dated the 8th of February, the committee day. 2008 M. Bostridge Florence Nightingale viii. 198 A year after her return from the Crimean War, she returned there on a committee day, ‘where all received her with the greatest reverence & affection’. committee meeting n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > meeting of committee1643 committee meeting1746 1746 Proc. King's Comm. Peace London & Middlesex 5–9 Dec. ii. ii. 67/1 He said he would..see me again at the next Committee-Meeting. 1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow II. xxviii. 123 My father is gone to a committee meeting. 1948 E. Waugh Loved One 139 We had a committee meeting last night and your name was mentioned. 2003 J. M. Boss & S. H. Eckert Acad. Scientists at Work iii. 46 One way that committee meetings lose their focus is through the regaling of anecdotal stories or complaints. committee room n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > meeting of > place of committee chamber1581 committee room1646 1646 R. Bacon Spirit of Prelacie 5 Master Shepherd..with the Major of the City in the evening, privatly in the Committee room, spent a long time in perswading mee to depart that place. 1772 Town & Country Mag. Feb. 93/1 Passing a Committee-room, where only one member was holding a committee. 1864 Daily Tel. 6 Apr. There was a committee-room, which..had been converted into a bar, and there the consumption of rum-punches was enormous. 2011 Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 6/6 During an epic all-night sitting in the House of Lords..peers were able to use camp beds set up in committee rooms to catch up on sleep between votes. b. Designating a person who is a member of, or holds a post on, a committee.See also committee chair n., committeeman n., committee-woman n. at Compounds 2. committee chairman n. ΚΠ 1760 Rules & Orders Soc. Encouragem. Arts, Manuf. & Commerce (new ed.) 18 Any other Member shall be appointed by the Committee Chairman for the occasion. 1882 Times 26 Dec. 6/2 The system [sc. of standing committees in the United States Congress] creates a sort of oligarchy of committee chairmen. 1946 Pop. Photogr. May 115/2 The committee chairman then calls the meeting into a more formal session. 2005 J. B. Cheaney My Friend Enemy 13 We were split down the middle... Margie, the committee chairman, couldn't make up her mind. committee chairperson n. ΚΠ 1971 Amer. Sociologist 6 193/1 Sociologists for Women in Society..met..for the purpose of adopting constitutional by-laws and electing temporary officers and committee chairpersons. 1995 Irish Times 8 Apr. 12/5 The televising of committees will take..accountability a step further... Not all committee chairpersons will rise to the challenge. 2006 R. Calland Anat. of South Afr. iv. 93 The role of the committee chairperson is critical to the new parliament's well-being and relevance. committee chairwoman n. ΚΠ 1899 Irish World & Amer. Industr. Liberator 1 July 11/4 The Sacred Heart Alumnae and Literary Association has been formed... Committee chairwomen are: Miss Heffran, programme..; Mrs. George M. Savage, finance. 1980 Copeia No. 4. 957/2 Committee Chairwoman, Marvalee Wake, introduced the Committee's report by summarizing its chief concerns during the past year. 2004 N.Y. Times 27 Oct. b9/1 The committee chairwoman..pressed the official..on why the new arts curriculum, adopted over the summer, has yet to reach all classrooms. committee member n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > member of committee1571 committeeman1642 committee member1648 1648 W. Powell News for Newters 29 If some Countrey Committee-Members..were left to be their own Judges, they would passe sentence of condemnation against themselves. 1771 Charter-party (Benevolent Annuity-Company Dublin) 36 The Company shall proceed to the Election..of a new President, Secretary, or Committee Member. 1887 16th Ann. Rep. Local Governm. Board 1886–87 App. 127 in Parl. Papers (C. 5131) XXXVI. 1 More than one committee member has urged me to say that I was ‘satisfied’ or ‘approved’ of certain homes. 1948 Internat. Organization 2 54 The twelfth recommendation..was accepted by all committee members. 2001 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 6 Dec. (Neighbors East section) 10/3 Coppola thanked committee members for their patience during her tenure. committee secretary n. ΚΠ 1820 Morning Post 17 May 1 Tickets, 15s each, to be had of the Stewards, the Treasurer, Committee Secretary, and at the Bar of the Tavern. 1953 Oak Leaves (Oak Park, Illinois) 19 Mar. 61/2 Mrs. Herbert Boehm received acknowledgment for her splendid work in the past year as committee secretary. 2014 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 25 June 43 The Trade Union Corporate Committee and C.S.E.U. Reps, are deeply sadden by the death of our Committee Secretary, friend and colleague, Brian. C2. committee boat n. (in a yacht or boat race) a boat from which members of the organizing committee watch and judge the race. ΚΠ 1828 Argus 8 July 60/3 Sailing match... To slip from their moorings off the town, to sail round the Preventative Boat, stationed off Hylam, and return to the Committee-boat. 1912 Motor Boating Sept. 37/1 Their racing number will be displayed from the committee boat 30 seconds before they are due to start. 1977 Computerworld 23 May 13/1 The safety boats and committee boats left shore each morning with the most up-to-date list of boats competing. 2000 S. Webb Three Times Lady viii. 87 The finishing line was between the mark and the committee boat and spectator boats of all shapes and sizes littered the water nearby. committee chair n. the position or role of the person chosen to preside over a committee; the chairperson of a committee; see chair n.¹ 9.Earliest and frequently with reference to the chairmanship of the House of Commons when sitting as a committee (see sense 1b). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > president or chairperson of presidenta1382 prolocutor1570 moderator1573 spokesman1607 committee chair1643 chairman1654 referendary1655 speaker1656 chair1659 convener1681 chairperson1971 1643 R.E. Let. written out of Country to J. Pym 2 If any Ordinance of Parliament hath bin ordained..how have we cried it up, as proceeding from the infallible Committee Chaire, as if wee had tyed our faith to their sleeves. 1682 T. D'Urfey et al. Whig's Exalt. (single sheet) iv The Whigs shall Rule Committee Chair, Who will such Laws Invent, As shall Exclude the Lawful Heir By Act of Parliament. 1780 Yorks. Freeholder 10 Feb. 20 The Gentleman who originally moved the petition at the general County Meeting.., was called unanimously to Committee Chair. 1890 Speaker 8 Mar. 246/2 Mr. Courtney is one of the strongest presidents..that has ever been seen, either in the Great Chair or the Committee Chair of the House of Commons. 1968 Bay State Banner (Boston, Mass.) 4 Jan. 1 Bernstein was elected to the Committee chair at the same meeting. 2010 D. A. Ritchie U.S. Congr.: Very Short Introd. iii. 51 In 2001... The Speaker had to order the committee chairs to negotiate with each other until they reached a compromise. † committee cut n. slang Obsolete a closely-cropped hairstyle favoured by Puritan supporters of Parliament in the English Civil War; cf. Committee of Safety n. (a) at Phrases 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > cut or cropped roundinga1582 stumps1584 stubs1607 trim1608 tonsure1650 committee cut1691 rasure1737 crop1795 county crop1839 flat-top1859 prison cropc1863 clip1889 Dartmoor crop1930 razor cut1940 prison haircut1948 scissor cut1948 cut1951 pudding basin1951 short back and sides1965 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 743 They mostly had short hair, which at this time was commonly called the Committee cut. 1774 J. Granger Suppl. to Biogr. Hist. Eng. 259 The hair of the ‘committee cut’, as it was called, was remarkably short. 1839 E. Pickering Prince & Pedlar III. iii. 79 The Roundhead officer was a fair and rather good-looking man..whose hair, if not exactly of the committee cut, yet boasted not the flowing ringlets of the Cavaliers. committee hearing n. (a) a hearing held before a committee; (b) spec. a meeting of a committee appointed by a legislative body, at which evidence is taken from experts and interested parties on a particular matter being considered by the committee; cf. sense 1b. ΚΠ 1845 Boston Post 24 June In England at the present time..in the case of the rival Newcastle, Berwick and Northumberland lines £50,000 were expended in committee hearings alone. 1889 N.Y. Times 30 Dec. 1/3 More trouble in the Ninth Ward schools... A stormy scene at a committee hearing. 1924 Times 2 May 12/5 (heading) The Admiral said nothing which had not already been said to Congress during the Committee hearings on the Supply Bill. 1937 Rep. Select Comm. Private Bill Procedure 77/1 in Parl. Papers 1936–7 (H.C. 112) VIII. 399 The Special Committee..set up..for the purpose of splitting into two a single Bill, involving two Committee hearings on one Bill. 2013 T. Daschle & C. Robbins U.S. Senate iii. xxviii. 117 A senator can give a lobbyist a chance to showcase his views..by slating him to testify at a committee hearing. committeeman n. a man or (occasionally) a woman who belongs to a committee or committees; a member of a committee. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > member of committee1571 committeeman1642 committee member1648 1642 Orders Comm. Militia Middlesex (single sheet) The severall Captains and Committee-men..do select and place in chief within their List, the prime men that serve with their own Arms. 1793 T. Pennant Lit. Life 107 I objected in that letter..to all party-associations, and for myself decline the honors of committee-man. 1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. I. v. 27 The deputies..were anciently called committee-men; each town being said to send a committee or deputation to the legislature. 1920 Everybody's Mag. Nov. 86/2 The morning session was over;..the wide verandas were thick with speakers, committeemen, delegates, super-delegates and reporters. 1997 Daily Herald (Chicago) 20 Mar. (DuPage County ed.) i. 9/3 She became a committeeman and ascended to chairwoman soon after. 2008 Indianapolis Star 11 Jan. (State ed.) b8/2 On Sunday, Republican 7th District precinct committeemen and ward chairmen will gather to hear from candidates. committee report n. (a) a report prepared by or for a committee; (b) spec. a report presented to a legislative body containing the conclusions of a committee appointed to consider a particular matter, esp. proposed legislation; cf. sense 1b. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > reporting > [noun] > a report > formal report1581 return1618 annual report1724 committee report1776 communiqué1852 working paper1945 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > state, government, or parliamentary papers > [noun] > report of parliamentary committee report?1576 committee report1837 1776 Morning Chron. 20 Sept. The committee report was read, That they had, at the request of the Association, waited upon Mr. Alderman Oliver. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. ii. i. 101 There comes Committee Report on that Decree..and speech of repealing it. 1908 Hansard Commons 23 Nov. 1839 The whole of that Committee Report was devoted to..lightening the load on the ratepayers. 2001 N.Y. Times 28 June a20/1 Ms. Thernstrom said..that the committee report was flawed and prejudicial. committee stage n. originally and chiefly British Parliament (in a legislative assembly) the stage in the passage of a bill at which it is examined in detail, debated, and amended by a committee; also figurative.In the British Parliament, a bill enters the committee stage after the second reading and before the report stage. ΚΠ 1805 Parl. Deb. 1st ser. 5 249 The Loyalty Loan.., and the Irish Militia bills, went through the committee stages, and were ordered to be reported to-morrow. 1890 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 13 Jan. 2/5 The most perceptible progress in the work of legislation in Congress is still shown in the committee stage. 1976 M. Frayn Alphabet. Order ii. 47 Leslie. I told her we were thinking of getting married. John. Oh. Yes, well, it's still as it were at the committee stage. 2010 Home Affairs Comm.: National DNA Database: 8th Rep. I. i. 3 in Parl. Papers 2009–10 (H.C. 222-I) At the time of writing, this Bill has completed its Committee stage and is about to come back to the House of Commons for the Report stage. committee system n. a system involving deliberation by a committee or committees; spec. a parliamentary or legislative system in which committees (sense 1b) play an integral part. ΚΠ 1675 T. C. Vindiciae Pharmacapolae (single sheet) 'Tis not long agon.., The Lawyers left their Littletons, to Found Committee Systems on Rebellion's ground. 1818 Bury & Norwich Post 10 June In adverting to the Committee system [sc. of the Norwich Union Fire and Life Society], it was reported that the number of Committees was gradually increasing. 1842 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 555/2 This is the first great defect of the Committee system of the House of Commons. 1913 Factory May 488/2 The system..for authorizing..the production of new lines of product..may be regarded as typical of all committee systems. 1954 N.Y. Times 21 Mar. e4/1 The American Congress is run on the committee system. 2004 A. McConnell Sc. Local Governm. iv. 69 Executive decision-making..is the responsibility of democratically elected councillors (organised through the committee system). committee-woman n. a woman who belongs to a committee or committees; a female committee member. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > member of > woman committee-woman1724 1724 Plain Dealer 16 Nov. I am credibly inform'd, by an Able Committee-Woman, of our Assembly, That she is intimate with Two of them. 1868 W. Collins Moonstone II. ii. 188 A venerable committee-woman at the Mothers'-Small-Clothes. 1965 J. Porter Dover Three vi. 66 Dame Alice was an experienced committee woman and never used one word if ten would do. 2013 Scotsman (Nexis) 27 Sept. 29 Like a good committee-woman, she seems to have a gift for..keeping her mind focused on real problems and possible solutions. Derivatives coˈmmitteeism n. organization by means of a committee or committees; behaviour or attitudes typical of committees or their members. ΚΠ 1850 Ohio Observer (Hudson, Ohio) 3 July If Presbyterianism or committeeism is of God, we should expect to find something of it in the New Testament. 1912 Homiletic Rev. Jan. 203/2 There is great danger of going to seed on organization and ‘committeeism’. 2004 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 8 Oct. 66 Blogs are harder to do when you're constrained by committeeism. I couldn't imagine doing my blog if I had to have it checked by other people before publishing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). committeev. Brit. /kəˈmɪti/, U.S. /kəˈmɪdi/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: committee n.² Etymology: < committee n.² With sense 2 compare committeeing n. rare. 1. transitive. To put (a person or thing) before a committee for examination or debate. ironic in later use. ΚΠ 1742 H. Walpole Let. 10 Mar. in Corr. (1954) XVII. 366 They talk much of impeaching my father, since they could not committee him; but as they could not, I think they will scarce be able to carry a more violent step. 1908 Christian Advocate 24 Sept. 13/3 There is danger of ‘committeeing’ some things to death. 1997 Observer (Nexis) 22 June (Review section) 11 Having repeatedly postponed the memorial's installation, Austria's authorities are committeeing it into oblivion. 2. intransitive. To serve on a committee or committees; to act, meet, debate, etc., as a committee. ΚΠ 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. vi. 271 The Scots lie entrenched at Stirling, diligently raising new levies; parliamenting and committeeing diligently at Perth. 1911 Proc. National Assoc. Dental Faculties 101 If we keep on committeeing, we are going to legislate ourselves out of business. 1992 S. Rose Making of Memory 47 Labs need a lot of post-docs for the grad. students to learn from while their ostensible supervisors are lecturing, committeeing, or away at important conferences. 3. transitive. To provide with a committee or with committee members. ΚΠ 1889 Home Missionary (N.Y.) Dec. 372 They are officered and committeed from their own number. 1943 J. W. Day Farming Adventure (1949) ix. 100 The local pack, the Essex Farmers' Foxhounds, is mastered and committeed by farmers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1472n.²1566v.1742
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