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Webster 1913 Edition

Compromit

Com′pro-mitˊ

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Compromitted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Compromitting
.]
[L.
compromittere
. See
Compromise
,
Noun.
]
1.
To pledge by some act or declaration; to promise.
State Trials (1529).
2.
To put to hazard, by some indiscretion; to endanger; to compromise;
as, to
compromit
the honor or the safety of a nation
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Compromit

COMPROMIT

,
Verb.
T.
[L., To promise.] To pledge or engage, by some act or declaration, which may not be a direct promise, but which renders necessary some future act. Hence, to put to hazard, by some previous act or measure, which cannot be recalled; as, to compromit the honor or the safety of a nation.

Definition 2024

compromit

compromit

See also: compromît

English

Verb

compromit ‎(third-person singular simple present compromits, present participle compromitting, simple past and past participle compromitted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To compromise.
    • 1859, John S. C. Abbott, The Empire of Russia:
      The embassador, Alexeief, was authorized to make all proper protestations of friendship, but to be very cautious not to compromit the dignity of his sovereign.
    • 1789, Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson:
      The President […] was of opinion, that the arming and equipping vessels in the ports of the United States to cruise against nations with whom they are at peace, was incompatible with the territorial sovereignty of the United States; that it made them instrumental to the annoyance of those nations, and thereby tended to compromit their peace […]
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To pledge by some act or declaration; to promise.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of State Trials (1529) to this entry?)

French

Verb

compromit

  1. third-person singular past historic of compromettre

Etymology

Latin compromittere.

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