compromit

Latin compromittere.

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?)

compromit

1. third-person singular past historic of compromettre