committenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin committō.

動詞

committen (third-person singular simple present committeth, present participle committende, committynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle committed)

1. to entrust
   • c. 1370?-1451, John Lydgate, Lydgate's Reson and Sensuallyte‎, Early English text society, published 1901, page 5396:

     And this dredeful god Cupide,
     That kan departen and devyde
     To hys servauntes wele or wo,
     Ryght as him lyst, for bothe two
     Ben in his honde fully committed
     Tabyde sure or to be flytted,

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to perform, accomplish
   • 1462, W. C. Chaplaine, A manvall of prayers, collected, for the use of Sir Ralph Duttons regiment‎, Henry Hall:

     I pray thee forgive me all my ſinnes, which I have this day, unrighteouſly committed

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. to commit, dedicate something to
   • Geoffrey Chaucer, Tale of Melibee 31:

     Now sir, thanne shul ye committe the keping of your persone to your trewe freendes that been approved and y-knowe

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. to appoint (to an office or position)

派生語

派生した語

• English: commit

Conjugation

参照

• “committen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.