Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Committing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Relating to commission; of the nature of, or involving, commission.

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  • adjective By commission; resulting from a positive act.
  • adjective pragmatics Making a commitment, such as a promise or threat, by illocutionary means.
  • noun pragmatics A speech act by which a commitment is made, such as a promise or threat.

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Examples

  • You exemplify a verdictive e.g. when as a judge you pronounce a verdict; an exercitive by appointing, voting or advising; a commissive by promising, undertaking or declaring that you will do something; a behabitive by apologizing, criticizing, cursing or congratulating; an expositive by acts appropriately prefixed by phrases like ˜I reply™, ˜I argue™, ˜I concede™ etc., of a general expository nature.

    Him 2009

  • A less commissive objection is that, contra Dretske, there are candidate relations besides that of representing: some wide functional relation, perhaps, or a typical-cause relation (where neither of these is itself taken to constitute representing).

    Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006

  • a will, which renders me justly responsible for my actions, omissive as well as commissive.

    Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

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