Uncommitted

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not entrusted or delegated.

c. 1381.  Chaucer, Parl. Foules, 518. Whoso hyt doth full fowle hymsylf accloyeth For offyce vncommyttyd oft anoyeth.

  2.  Not committed or perpetrated; (left) undone.

1598.  Barret, Theor. Warres, 11. Gracelesse fellowes which do leaue no kinde of rauening crueltie vncommitted.

1607.  Hieron, Wks., I. 183. He would haue giuen a world, if he had beene able, that the fact of betraying Christ had beene vncommitted.

1643.  Hammond, Lent Serm. at Oxford, Wks. 1683, IV. 511. Because he hath … no strength to maintain, no injury to provoke the uncommitted sin.

1814.  Byron, Corsair, II. xi. 22. She scarce had left an uncommitted crime.

1891.  Meredith, One of our Conq., III. vi. 108–9. To have the forgiveness for her uncommitted sin dashed in her face.

  3.  Not referred to a committee.

1807.  T. Jefferson, Writ. (1830), IV. 95. We propose … to leave the question of war, non-intercourse, or other measures, uncommitted, to the legislature.

  4.  Not pledged to any particular course.

1814.  Chalmers, Lett., in Hanna, Life (1849), I. 444. I trust you will concede to me the right of bringing a free and uncommitted mind to this matter.

1826.  Disraeli, Viv. Grey, I. i. A young man, uncommitted in political principles.

1884.  Manch. Exam., 28 Oct., 5/3. Up to the present … the deputation … prefer to regard themselves as uncommitted.