committal

Meanings

1. The act of entrusting something to someone.
2. The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
3. The act of perpetrating an offence.
4. The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.

1. Of or relating to a committee.
2. Of or relating to commitment.

Etymology

From commit + -al.