[see -ING1.] The action of the verb COMMIT; commission.
1559. in Strype, Ann. Ref., I. App. viii. 21. The … committinge of administration of the goodes of the intestate.
1586. Thynne, in Holinshed, Chron., III. 1435. To be without the committing of a fault.
a. 1614. Donne, Βιαθανατος (1644), 132. Of Affirmations and Denyals, of Omissions and Committings.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., II. xxvii. 151. The Committing of that which the Law forbiddeth.
b. The action of referring to a committee: see COMMIT 4.
1640. Ld. Digby, Parl. Sp., 9 Feb., 6. The committing of this Petition may give countenance to that designe.
