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A sewer through which the whole sewage of a city, town, or village pa es. common-time, s. Music : Time with two beats in a bar or any multiple of two beats in a bar. The beats may be of the value of note or rest or compound of notes and rests, providing the sum required by the time sign be exactly contained in each bar. Common time is of two kinds, simple and compound. Simple common-time is that which includes four beats in a bar, or any division of that number, or square of the number or its divisions. The signs used to expre simple common-time are the following: 1, 3, 4, 4, 4, and the characters C and 4. In these signs the upper figure denotes the quantity of notes required in the bar, and the lower figure the quality of the notes. Compound common-time is expre ed by the signs 2,,, such signs meaning two or four beats of three crotchets or quavers to each beat. [TIME.] ( Stainer & Barrett .) IMG:content-0323.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To discu . "Where no res on may be comuned ."- Gower , i. 68. B. Intransitive: 1. To converse, talk, commune. "Comoune or talke with another in cumpany, or felawshepe. Communico."-Prompt. Parv. "With suche hem liketh to comune . "- Gower , i. 64. 2. To have a common right or share with others. 3. To participate in, to share in. "Laertes, I must common with your grief."- Shakesp.: Hamlet, iv. 5. 1002 age.] 1. Gen .: A right of using anything in common with others. 2. Spec .: The right of pasturing cattle on a com mon. "They have wronged poor people of their commonage , which of right belonged to them."-Fuller: Holy State , P. 286. 3. The commonalty, or body of commoners. com-mon-al-tỹ, *com-mon-al-i-tỹ, *com-onal-te, *com-mun-al-i-te, *com-yn-al-te, s. [Fr. communauté, from Low Lat. communal it as , from Lat.communis =common.] *1. A commonwealth, a community. "To the vse and profit of the seyd comynalte ."- Eng . Gilds , p. 380. IMG:content-0324.png:[blocks in formation] ( Fuller .) *(2) Spec .: A prostitute. ( Shakesp .) II. Of the House of Commons : A member of the English House of Commons. III. Of social rank : One of the commonalty, one who even if titled does not belong to the peerage. IV. Of University rank: A student in Oxford University, England, who is not dependent for support on the foundation of any college, but pays his way independently. *com-mon-er-ě , s. [ Eng.commoner ; -e .] The wife of a commoner. "Peers, commoners and counsel, commoner e es, and the numerous indefinites crowded every part." -Mad. D ' Arblay: Diary, v. 197. *com-mon-ing, *com-en-inge, *comowninge, *comynyng, pr . par ., a. & s. [COMMON, V.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) "As thes kynges in counsell were comynyng togedur."Destr. of Troy, 12,046. C. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. Intercourse, dealing, conversation. [COMMUNING.] 2. Communion, participation. "Wher it is not the comeninge of Cristis blode?" Wycliffe : 1 Cor . x. 16. II. Law : Commonage, the right of pasturage on a common. commonplace *com-mon-i-tion, s. [Lat. commonitio, from commoneo=to warn, to admonish.] A warning, advice, or monition. *com-mon-1-tive, a . [Formed by analogy as if from a Lat. commonitivus, from commoneo= to admonish, to warn.] Containing admonition or warning; monitory. "Whose cro was only commemorative, and common i tive,. "-Bp. Hall: Rem., p. 14. *com-mon-1-tōr-y, a. & 8. [Lat, common it or ius , from commoneo to warn, to admonish.] A. As adj .: Warning, admonishing, com monitive. B. As subst. A monition, a warning, an admonition. ( Whitaker: Disp. on Scrip., p. 8.) căni-môn-ly, *com-mune-liche, *com-ounli, *com-un-lich, *com-yn-liche, adv. [Eng. common; -ly.] *1. In common, alike. "God that ous made alle comunliche to his anlicne e." -Ayenbite, р. 145. *2. In common, familiarly, intimately, sociably. "And with great joy into that city wend, As commonly as frend does with his frend." Spenser: F. Q., L. x. 56. 3. Generally, frequently, usually, widely, freely. "That man, it was commonly said, has never wanted, and never will want, ar expedient." -Macaulay : Hist. Eng ., ch. xxiii. 4. Poorly, meanly. Crabb thus discriminates between commonly , frequently , usually , and generally : "What is com monly done is an action common to all; what is generally done is the action of the greatest part; what is frequently done is either the action of many, or an action many times repeated by the same person; what is usually done is dove regularly by one or many. Commonly is opposed to rarely; generally and frequently to occasionally or seldom; usually to casually; men commonly judge of others by themselves; those who judge by the mere exterior are generally deceived; but notwithstanding every precaution, one is frequently exposed to gro frauds; a man of busine usually repairs to his counting-house every day at a certain hour." (Crabb: Eng . Synon .)