Webster's Dictionary 1913

5860

Common (3)

Com″mon, v. i. 1. To converse together; to discourse; to confer.Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of.Grafton.2. To participate. S...

5861

Common sense

Com″mon sense″ (?). See Common sense, under Sense.

5862

Commonable

Com″mon‐a‐ble (?), a. 1. Held in common. “Forests... and other commonable places.” Bacon.2. Allowed to pasture on public commons.Commonable beasts are either beasts of the plow,...

5863

Commonage

Com″mon‐age (?), n. [Cf. OF. communage.] The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others.The claim of commonage... in most of the forests.B...

5864

Commonalty

Com″mon‐al‐ty (?), n.; pl.Commonalties (#). [OF. communalté; F. communauté, fr. communal. See Communal.] 1. The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are bel...

5865

Commoner

Com″mon‐er (?), n. 1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each other....

5866

Commonish

Com″mon‐ish, a. Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.

5867

Commonition

Com′mo‐ni″tion (?), n. [L. commonitio. See Monition.] Advice; warning; instruction. Bailey.

5868

Commonitive

Com‐mon″i‐tive (?), a. Monitory.Only commemorative and commonitive.Bp. Hall.

5869

Commonitory

Com‐mon″i‐to‐ry (?), a. [L. commonitorius.] Calling to mind; giving admonition. Foxe.

5870

Commonly

Com″mon‐ly (?), adv. 1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life.2. In common; familiarly. Spenser.

5871

Commonness

Com″mon‐ness, n. 1. State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.2. Triteness; meanness.

5872

Commonplace

Com″mon‐place′ (?), a. Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.

5873

Commonplace (2)

Com″mon‐place′, n. 1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or re...

5874

Commonplace (3)

Com″mon‐place′, v. t. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. Felton.

5875

Commonplace (4)

Com″mon‐place′, v. i. To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. Bacon.

5876

Commonplaceness

Com″mon‐place′ness, n. The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

5877

Commons

Com″mons (?), n. pl., 1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.'T is like the commons, rude unpolished ...

5878

Commonty

Com″mon‐ty (?), n.(Scots Law) A common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right. Bell.

5879

Commonweal

Com″mon‐weal″ (?), n. [Common + weal.] Commonwealth.Such a prince,So kind a father of the commonweal.Shak.

5880

Commonwealth

Com″mon‐wealth′ (?; 277), n. [Common + wealth well-being.] 1. A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one for...

5881

Commorance

Com″mo‐rance (?), n. See Commorancy.

5882

Commorancy

Com″mo‐ran‐cy (?), n. 1. (Law) A dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation.Commorancy consists in usually lying there.Blackstone.2. (Am. Law) Residence temporarily, ...

5883

Commorant

Com″mo‐rant (?), n. [L. commorans, p. pr. of commorari to abide; com- + morari to delay.] 1. (Law) Ordinarily residing; inhabiting.All freeholders within the precinct... and all...

5884

Commorant (2)

Com″mo‐rant, n. A resident. Bp. Hacket.

5885

Commoration

Com′mo‐ra″tion (?), n. [L. commoratio.] The act of staying or residing in a place. Bp. Hall.

5886

Commorient

Com‐mo″ri‐ent (?), a. [L. commoriens, p. pr. of commoriri.] Dying together or at the same time. Sir G. Buck.