commun1ty, comounte, comunete

[O. Fr. comm unité; Ital.comunità; Sp.comunidad; Port. comunidade, from Lat. comm unit as, from communis =common.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The quality or state of being enjoyed in common by two or more persons or other animated beings; identity of interests or privileges; common ownership. 2. The commonwealth; the members of a body politic having equal rights and privileges, civil and political, and united by common interests. "A strong line of demarcation must therefore be drawn between the soldiers and the rest of the community."Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xi. 3. The members of any society united by certain rules and regulations. 4. A number or body of any living beings a ociated for purposes of society or defense "Creatures that in communities exist." Words worth: Excursion, bk. iv. *5. The commons; the common people. "Toward the plain of Salisbery, where as the comounte of the peple sholde a emble."- Merlin , iii. 574. *6. Frequency, commonne . "As, sick and blunted with community, Afford no extraordinary gaze." 1006 *2. Exchange; the act of giving and receiving one thing for another. ". that there be some method and means of com mutation, as that of money." -Ray: On the Creation. *3. A ransom. "The law of God had allowed an evasion, that is, by way of commutation or redemption."- Brown . 4. A sum of money or other equivalent given in exchange for something else. 5. A substitution, as of a le amount for a greater; as where a smaller consideration than the usual fixed price is accepted for anything when paid for in advance, as in the case of round-trip fares on railroads, season tickets to theaters, . Commutation - ticket : A ticket of admi ion to a series of entertainments, or for a number of fares on a railroad, ., i ued at reduced rates. II. Technically : 1. Astron.: The angle of commutation is the angular distance between the sun's true place from the earth, and the place of a planet reduced to the ecliptic. 2. Rhetoric: A figure of speech whereby a complete transposition of the words in the sentence takes place; as, "I do not live that I may eat, but I eat that I may live." In Gr. antimetabolē . 3. Law : (1) The substitution of a punishment le in degree for one greater in degree. (2) The giving one thing in exchange or equivalent for another, as the exchange of tithes for a rent charge. Commutation of Tithes: [TITHE.] com-mu-tā-tive, a . [ Fr.com mut at if , as if from a Lat. commutativus , from com mut at us , pa. par. of commuto.] Of or pertaining to exchange. "Commutative justice requires that every man should have his own." - Bp. Hall: Cases of Conscience, i. 7. IMG:content-0344.png:[blocks in formation] ( Browne .) Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt. I. , iii. 2. 7. Common character.