committal
Act of entrusting
Committal is the act of committing—especially sending someone to prison, a psychiatric facility, or the grave.
A committal hearing determines whether enough evidence exists to proceed to trial.
At a funeral, the committal is the moment when the body is consigned to its final resting place: The committal took place at the family plot.
Service honoring the dead
- intermentPutting a body underground
- gravesideBeside a burial plot
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- eulogyTribute for the dead
mourning · last rites · memorial service · casket · pallbearers · cemetery · repose · sepulture
Shelter from persecution
- psychiatricOf mental health treatment
- hospitalizationFormal entry into medical care
- detentionTemporary official holding
- confinementState of being restricted
custody · involuntary · mental health · court-ordered · sectioning · evaluation · observation · treatment
Charge-reading court session
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
- indictmentFormal charge from jury
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
- trialJudicial examination of claims
magistrate · remand · custody · bail · preliminary · proceedings · court · charges
Avoiding direct response
- guardedWary and restrained
- reservedRestrained in manner
- vagueUnclear, ill-defined
- cautiousCareful to avoid risk
neutral · ambiguous · hedging · equivocal · diplomatic · indefinite · circumspect · wary
funeral
Service honoring the dead
eulogy · mourning · last rites · memorial service · casket · pallbearers · cemetery · repose · sepulture · mausoleum
asylum
Shelter from persecution
- psychiatricOf mental health treatment
- hospitalizationFormal entry into medical care
- detentionTemporary official holding
confinement · custody · involuntary · mental health · court-ordered · sectioning · evaluation · observation · treatment · certification
arraignment
Charge-reading court session
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
- indictmentFormal charge from jury
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
trial · magistrate · remand · custody · bail · preliminary · proceedings · court · charges · defendant
evasive
Avoiding direct response
cautious · neutral · ambiguous · hedging · equivocal · diplomatic · indefinite · circumspect · wary · tentative
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- church burialsburial rites, burial plot, churchyard, consecrated ground, funeral mass
- cremationcrematorium, crematory, ashes, retort, pyre
- funeral ritesfuneral, bury, burial, funeral mass, burial rites
- funeral prayersrequiem, memorial prayer, requiem mass, funeral mass, last rites
- Court Procedureadjournment, civil procedure, trial procedure, trial process, criminal procedure
committalrelease
To let go
discharge · freedom · liberation · acquittal · dismissal
committalexhumation
Recovering buried remains
disinterment · retrieval · unearthing · disturbance · excavation
committalnoncommittal
Not expressing clear opinion
evasion · equivocation · hedging · withdrawal · indecision
- oversight committeePanel monitoring institutional conduct
- committing to memoryDeliberately retaining information
- executive committeeOrganization's top decision-makers
- planning committeeGroup organizing future actions
- committee chairGroup's presiding leader
- committing suicideIntentionally ending one's life
committee, uncommitted, committing, noncommittal, committals, recommitted, overcommitted, noncommittally, precommitted