different between immure vs commit

English

Etymology

From Middle French emmurer, from Old French, from Latin immurare, from im, combining variant of in (“in”), + m?rus (“wall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mj??(r)/
• Rhymes: -??(r)

Verb

immure (third-person singular simple present immures, present participle immuring, simple past and past participle immured)

1. (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.
   • 1799, Mary Meeke, Elle?mere: A Novel, Volume IV, William Lane (publisher), pages 219–220:

     The gentlemen looked at each other for a ?olution of this ?trange event, each pre?uming an order had been obtained to again immure the unfortunate Clara.

   • 1880, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, A Blighted Life, Preface,

     In a happy moment for the Levy-Lawson-Levis, Lady Lytton was betrayed, seized, and immured. The Editor saw his chance, and made the Metropolis ring with the outrage. Levi was saved; so also was Lady Lytton.

   • 1933 December, Albert H. Cotton, “A Note on the Civil Remedies of Injured Consumers”, in David F. Cavers (editor), Duke University School of Law, Law and Contemporary Problems, Volume I Number I, Duke University Press (1934), page 71:

     This rule is followed in all common-law jurisdictions, although it was not adopted by the House of Lords until 1932, and then only with vigorous dissent, in a case where a mouse was immured in a ginger-beer bottle.

2. (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.

   John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.

   • 1906, Robert Chambers, The Book of Days, Volume 1, page 807,

     The dreadful punishment of immuring persons, or burying them alive in the walls of convents, was undoubtedly sometimes resorted to by monastic communities.

3. To wall in.
4. (transitive, crystallography and geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
   • 1975, American Institute of Physics, American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography, Volume 19, Issues 1-3, page 296,

     On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely immuring the impurity and ${\displaystyle v}$ rises sharply.

Synonyms

• (imprison): cloister, confine, imprison, incarcerate
• (bury): inter

Derived terms

• immured

Related terms

• immurement

Translations

Noun

immure (plural immures)

1. (obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.

Alternative forms

• emure

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin committ? (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com- (“together”) + mitt? (“to send”). See mission.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??m?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Hyphenation: com?mit

Verb

commit (third-person singular simple present commits, present participle committing, simple past and past participle committed)

1. (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
2. (transitive) To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison.
3. (transitive) To have (a person) enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.

4. (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
5. To join a contest; to match; followed by with.

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6. (transitive, intransitive) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
   • 8 March, 1769, Junius, letter to the Duke of Grafton

     You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without committing the honour of your sovereign.

   • 1803, John Marshall, The Life of George Washington

     Any sudden assent to the proposal […] might possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States.

7. (transitive, computing) To make a set of changes permanent.
8. (transitive, obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
9. (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
10. (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.

Usage notes

To commit, entrust, consign. These words have in common the idea of transferring from oneself to the care and custody of another. Commit is the widest term, and may express only the general idea of delivering into the charge of another; as, to commit a lawsuit to the care of an attorney; or it may have the special sense of entrusting with or without limitations, as to a superior power, or to a careful servant, or of consigning, as to writing or paper, to the flames, or to prison. To entrust denotes the act of committing to the exercise of confidence or trust; as, to entrust a friend with the care of a child, or with a secret. To consign is a more formal act, and regards the thing transferred as placed chiefly or wholly out of one's immediate control; as, to consign a pupil to the charge of his instructor; to consign goods to an agent for sale; to consign a work to the press.

Derived terms

• commit suicide
• commit to memory

Related terms

• commission
• commitment
• committal
• committee
• noncommittal
• mission

Translations

References

Further reading

• commit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• commit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Noun

commit (plural commits)

1. (computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.mi/

Verb

commit

1. third-person singular past historic of commettre