To commit or entrust something to someone's care or management; an archaic legal term meaning to hand over or deliver.
From Old French commettre, from Latin committere (com- 'together' + mittere 'to send, place'). Used in medieval and early modern English legal contexts, largely replaced by 'commit' or 'entrust.'
In medieval England, when a lord would 'commise' authority to a steward, it created a formal legal relationship—this word helped establish concepts of delegation and responsibility in common law.
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