communitarian (komunitarian)

[ this little accident. Hawthorne, Blithe dale Romance, p. 78. com munition (kom-u-nish'on), n. [ commune + -ition .] Communion. [Rare.] "The com munition of the body of Christ," and "Christ being our life," are such secret glories, that, as the fruition of them is the portion of the other world, so also is the full perception and understanding of them. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 309. community (ko-mu'ni-ti), n.; pl. communities (-tiz). [ OF.com munite , communete, comunete, comonteit , etc. (> E. commonty , the older form), common interests or privileges, commercial, social, political, or ecclesiastical, and subject to the same regulations; now, especially, a society of this nature in which the members reside together or in the same locality: as, the Oneida Community (see below). According to the "Rules and Orders of the Clothiers' Community , 1803," the chief object of the Institution was to carry out the legal regulations as to apprentices in their original purity. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. clxxv. 5. The body of people in a state or commonwealth; the public, or people in general: used in this sense always with the definite article. It is not designed for her own use, but for the whole community . Add is on, Guardian. Burdens upon the poorer cla es of the community . 6t. Commonne ; frequency. Sick and blunted with community . Hallam. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iii. 2. 7. In logic, the being po e ed in common by several subjects. - Brethren of the Community. See brother. Community of goods, the holding of goods in common, implying common ownership and common use and enjoyment, but not, in law, the right of partition or severance. - Community property, in civil law (and in the States of California, Louisiana, Nevada, Texas, and formerly Mi ouri, and in the Territories of Arizona, Idaho, Montana, and Washington), the property of husband and wife exclusive of the antenuptial property of either, and of property acquired by either by bequest, inheritance, or gift. All other acquisitions during mar riage are the joint property of both, and the husband has the active power of disposal during the life of both, the wife's rights being meanwhile pa ive. On the death of either, the survivor administers, much as in the case of partnership, the survivor being entitled to one half, and etc., of the deceased to the other half. House community, an early form of organization in which the heirs of a given ancestor and their heirs in turn continued to live together, upon the common inheritance, with a nity, a religious society or brotherhood, the Bible Commu common dwelling and common table. - Oneida Commu nists or Perfectionists, established in 1847 on Oneida creek, in Lenox township, Madison county, New York, by John H. Noyes, after unsucce ful attempts to establish it at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1834, and at Putney, Vermont, in 1837. A branch of the Oneida Community also existed at Walling ford, Connecticut, but has now been withdrawn. Originally the Oneida Community was strictly communistic, all property and all children belonging primarily to the society, and the restrictions of marriage being entirely abolished; but in 1879, owing to the increasing demand of public opinion that the social practices of the society should be abandoned, marriage and family life were introduced, and in 1880 communism of property gave place to a joint-stock system, and the Community was legally incorporated as "the Oneida Community, Limited." Village community, an early form of or ganization, in which the land belonged to the village, the arable land being allotted by it to the members or households of the community, by more or le permanent arrangements, the waste or common land remaining undivided. state to another; alteration; change. So great is the commutation , that the soul then hated only that which now only it loves. South , Sermons. 2. The act of giving one thing for another; exchange; barter. By giving and returning, by commerce and commutation, South, Sermons. The use of money in the commerce and traffick of mankind, is that of saving the commutation of more bulky commodities. Arbuthnot , Anc. Coins. 3. The act of substituting one thing for another; substitution. [This, in the specific applicatio plications noted below, is now the usual signification of the word.] A kind of mutual commutation there is whereby those concrete names, God and Man, when we speak of Christ, do take interchangeably one another's room. Hooker , Eccles. Polity, v. § 53. The law of God had allowed an evasion, that is, by way of commutation or redemption. Sir T. Browne. Specifically-(a) In law , the change of a penalty or punishment from a greater to a le , as banishment instead of death. Suits are allowable in the spiritual courts for money agreed to be given as a commutation for penance. Black stone . ( b ) The substitution of one sort of payment for another, or of a money payment in lieu of the performance of compulsory duty or labor, or of a single payment in lieu of a number of succe ive payments, usually at a reduced rate. See commutation -ticket. (c) Milit., the money value of allowances, such as quarters, fuel, forage, etc., taken in place of them. Angle of commutation, the exce of the heliocentric longitude of a planet over that of the earth.Commutation of Tithes Act, an English statute of 1836 (6 and 7 Wm. IV., c. 71), frequently amended, providing for the payment of tithes in money and prescribing means for valuing them.