单词 | recommitment |
释义 | recommitmentn. 1. = recommittal n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > [noun] > referring to committee > sending back bill to committee recommitment1606 recommittal1863 society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > re-imprisonment or remand remand1601 recommittal1793 reimprisonment1798 recommitment1817 reinternment1909 society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [noun] > custody > consigning to > again remanding1648 recommittal1793 recommitment1817 remand1841 1606 R. Bowyer Diary 17 Mar. in Parl. Diary (1931) 82 The day beinge farre spent the howse entered a litle into the Greavances and after some dispute referred them all to a Recomittment. 1644 Iusticia Prestigiosa sig. A3 In further prevention of the said last owter and divers days before the triall, the Petitioner moved the Barons in Court for Recommitment of Cosford until hee yielded obedience. 1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom II. lvi. 180 After having received the compliments of the jailor on his recommitment, he took pen, ink and paper. 1779 Hansard Parl. Hist. (1814) XX. 1003 The question of re-commitment, which the House has rejected. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. xxi No re-commitment (for new trial) of juvenile performances. 1861 T. E. May Constit. Hist. Eng. (1863) I. iii. 146 Lord Halifax..moved the recommitment of the bill. 1926 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Criminal Law & Criminol. 16 595 The mother made application for re-commitment, but..the case was dismissed. 1995 Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota) (Nexis) 13 Feb. 1 a He is fighting recommitment to a state hospital. 2. Fresh or renewed commitment (to something); an instance of this. ΚΠ 1896 C. E. Chadsey Struggle between President Johnson & Congr. over Reconstruction iii. 56 The significance of the message was merely his recommitment to the policy he was applying in practice. 1950 Jrnl. Bible & Relig. 18 61/2 A recommitment to God (and Rothfels repeatedly stresses, recommitment to the Christian faith). 1981 Times 19 Dec. 6/7 He has called for..a recommitment to communist ideals. 2005 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 Nov. c3 [He] surprised his wife with a $50,000 recommitment ceremony. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1606 |
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