单词 | to commit fully |
释义 | > as lemmasto commit (a person) fully P7. transitive (usually in passive). Law (chiefly British). to commit (a person) fully: to refer (a person) for trial; to imprison (a person) awaiting trial. Cf. to commit for (also to) trial at Phrases 8. ΚΠ 1767 Public Advertiser 26 Jan. On Friday last she was re-examined at the Public-office in Bow-street, before the said Justice and others, and fully committed for one Offence. 1785 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 442/1 He has been examined at the Public Office in Bow-Street, and fully committed to Newgate, in order to take his trial the next sessions at the Old-Bailey. ?1826 A. Knapp & W. Baldwin New Newgate Cal. (new ed.) V. 252 He was caught, carried before the sitting magistrate at Guildhall, and fully committed on three several charges. 1846 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 25 July 389/1 Ann Henry, the keeper of a den of infamy and..one of her syrens, have been fully committed on the charge of robbing Townsend W. Hetherington. 1892 Green Bag Sept. 415/2 Pritchard was at once fully committed on the charge of having murdered both his wife and his mother-in-law. 1907 New London Jrnl. 6 Apr. 546/2 Nibbling Ned, after an examination at Bow-street on the following morning, was fully committed on the charge of the double murder. 1992 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 12 Sept. 6 All three were fully committed on these charges yesterday. 2009 Scotsman (Nexis) 7 May [He] appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court where he was fully committed on charges of murder. < as lemmas |
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