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  • Commit comes from the Latin word committere, which includes in its definition this element of action: “to bring together, join, entrust, and do.”

    VISION, VALUES, AND COURAGE Neil H. Snyder 1994

  • Commit comes from the Latin word committere, which includes in its definition this element of action: “to bring together, join, entrust, and do.”

    VISION, VALUES, AND COURAGE Neil H. Snyder 1994

  • Cum enim Romam versus properaret, & ingenti ac periculosa oborta tempestate, Naucleros trepidare, nec se ventorum aut maris s鎣iti� committere velle animaduerteret, ipse nauim primus ingressus, anchoras tolli iussit, in h鎐 verba exclamans: Vt nauigemus vrget necessitas: vt viuamus, non vrget.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Cum enim Romam versus properaret, & ingenti ac periculosa oborta tempestate, Naucleros trepidare, nec se ventorum aut maris sævitiæ committere velle animaduerteret, ipse nauim primus ingressus, anchoras tolli iussit, in hæc verba exclamans: Vt nauigemus vrget necessitas: vt viuamus, non vrget.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • 'Cum Iuvenale meo quae me committere temptas, quid non audebis, perfida lingua, loqui?' etc. That he was still in Rome in B.C. 101, and had the entrée of the atria of rich nobles is shown by Mart.xii. 18, written in that year.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Hae summam scientiam reí mílitáris habébant, et tantam virtútem adhibébant ut cum virís proelium committere audérent.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • Ubi iam Herculēs fīnem fēcit, Pȳthia iussit eum ad urbem Tīryntha [2] discēdere et ibi rēgī Eurystheō sēsē committere.

    Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

  • Hōc rūmōre audītō, tantus terror omnium animōs occupāvit ut nē fortissimī quidem proelium committere vellent.

    Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

  • Barbarī proelium committere statuērunt eō magis quod Rōmānī īnfīrmī esse vidēbantur.

    Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900

  • The _modus operandi_ is generally what Martial calls _geminos committere cunnos_, but sometimes a phallus, called _saburah_, is employed.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

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