Crossword clues for recommit
recommit
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recommit \Re`com*mit"\ (-m?t"), v. t. To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. commit again
WordNet
v. commit once again, as of a crime
commit again; "It was recommitted into her custody"
send back to a committee; "The bill was recommitted three times in the House"
[also: recommitting, recommitted]
Usage examples of "recommit".
Rose Fuller moved that the address should be recommitted, but no arguments which he, or any speaker that took part with him adduced, could alter the disposition of the house upon the subject, and his motion was negatived by a large majority.
Wingfield saw no way of escape from the malice of his accusers, whose purpose he suspected was to fine him fivefold for all the supplies whose disposition he could not account for in writing: but he was finally allowed to appeal to the King for mercy, and recommitted to the pinnace.
Even if they could recommit forces now fighting in the south, we can guarantee that they will not have the funds to provision them.
It was at that point that she recommitted her life to Christ, gave up her secular career, and made the decision to write only books that would point her readers to him.
At the end of the observation period, the patient may be recommitted for a longer term if the court finds that he needs further treatment or evaluation.
Cadair Abbey recommitted to the Glamorgan Druids, as David had no doubt intended.
An old coded list of names, addresses, and phone numbers was recommitted to memory and then dropped into the wastebasket as well.
At the commencement of this debate Lord John Cavendish had moved, that the address should be recommitted, but it was in the end negatived by two hundred and eighty-eight to one hundred and five.
The queen was so enraged at this disappointment, that, instead of releasing him as the law required, she recommitted him to the Tower, and kept him in close confinement during some time.
Chumphon, and that would mean recommitting troops and supplies from China, which nobody is willing to do.
On the 29th of April, 1792, Rebecqui and Bertin, the vanquishers of Arles, enter Avignon[53] along with a cortége, at the head of which are from thirty to forty of the principal murderers whom the Legislative Assembly itself had ordered to be recommitted to prison, Duprat, Mainvielle, Toumal, Mende, then Jourdan in the uniform of a commanding general crowned with laurel and seated on a white horse, and, lastly, the dames Duprat, Mainvielle and Tournal, in dashing style, standing on a sort of triumphal chariot.
It has been considered by Congress, recommitted & reformed by a committee according to sentiments expressed on other parts of it, but the principle referred to, having not been controverted at all, stands in this as in the original report.