different between committed vs vicinage

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??m?t?d/
• Hyphenation: com?mit?ted

Verb

committed

1. simple past tense and past participle of commit

Adjective

committed (comparative more committed, superlative most committed)

1. Obligated by a pledge to some course of action.
2. Showing commitment.
3. Associated in an exclusive (but not necessarily permanent) sexual relationship.
4. (rhetoric) Required by logic to endorse the conclusion of an argument.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Old French visnage, respelled to more closer match its Latin source v?c?nus (“neighbor”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?v?s?n?d?/

Noun

vicinage (plural vicinages)

1. (now rare) A surrounding district; a neighbourhood.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 34:

     She is the only flower of fragrance that has blown in this vicinage for ten years past, or will for ten years to come […].
2. (now rare) The people of a neighbourhood.
3. The state of living near something; proximity, closeness.
4. (Britain, US, law) The area where a crime was committed, a trial is being held, or the community from which jurors are drawn.
5. (New Jersey, law) A geographical division of the w:New Jersey Superior Court, covering one or more counties, for judicial administration and the assignment of venue to an action within the Superior Court

See also

• vicinity
• vicinal