Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C

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Commit (v. t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.

Thou shalt not commit adultery. -- Ex. xx. 14.

Commit (v. t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with. [R.] -- Dr. H. More.

Commit (v. t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.

You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without commiting the honor of your sovereign. -- Junius.

Any sudden assent to the proposal . . . might possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States. -- Marshall.

Commit (v. t.) To confound. [An obsolete Latinism.]

Committing short and long [quantities]. -- Milton.

{To commit a bill} (Legislation), To refer or intrust it to a committee or others, to be considered and reported.

{To commit to memory}, or {To commit}, To learn by heart; to memorize.

Syn: {To Commit}, {Intrust}, {Consign}.

Usage: These words have in common the idea of transferring from one's self to the care and custody of another. Commit is the widest term, and may express only the general idea of delivering into the charge of another; as, to commit a lawsuit to the care of an attorney; or it may have the special sense of intrusting with or without limitations, as to a superior power, or to a careful servant, or of consigning, as to writing or paper, to the flames, or to prison. To intrust denotes the act of committing to the exercise of confidence or trust; as, to intrust a friend with the care of a child, or with a secret. To consign is a more formal act, and regards the thing transferred as placed chiefly or wholly out of one's immediate control; as, to consign a pupil to the charge of his instructor; to consign goods to an agent for sale; to consign a work to the press.

Commit (v. i.) To sin; esp., to be incontinent. [Obs.]

Commit not with man's sworn spouse. -- Shak.

Commit (v.) Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation; "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery" [syn: {perpetrate}, {commit}, {pull}].

Commit (v.) Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause; "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church" [syn: {give}, {dedicate}, {consecrate}, {commit}, {devote}].

Commit (v.) Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison" [syn: {commit}, {institutionalize}, {institutionalise}, {send}, {charge}].

Commit (v.) Confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God" [syn: {entrust}, {intrust}, {trust}, {confide}, {commit}].

Commit (v.) Make an investment; "Put money into bonds" [syn: {invest}, {put}, {commit}, {place}] [ant: {disinvest}, {divest}].

Commit (v.) Engage in or perform; "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness" [syn: {commit}, {practice}].

Commit (v.) (Crime) (B2) [ T ] 做（違法或錯誤的事）；犯（罪、錯） To do something illegal or something that is considered wrong.

// He was sent to prison for a crime that he didn't commit.

// To commit adultery/ murder.

// To commit an offence.

Commit (v.) (Promise) (C2) [ I or T ] 承諾，保證；（使）忠於；（使）致力於；投入（時間或金錢） To promise or give your loyalty, time, or money to a particular principle, person, or plan of action.

// Like so many men, he has problems committing himself to a relationship.

// The government must commit itself to improving healthcare.

// Once we have committed to this course of action there is no going back.

Commit yourself 表態；決定 To express an opinion or to make a decision that you tell people about.

// I think I can come but I won't commit myself till I know for sure.

Commit sth to memory 牢記 To make certain that you remember something.

Commit sth to paper 寫下，記下 To write something down.

// Perhaps we should commit these ideas to paper before we forget them.

Commit (v.) (Send) [ T ] (Formal) （正式地）將…送進（監獄或醫院） To send someone officially to prison or hospital.

// He's been committed to prison for fraud.

Idiom: Commit suicide

Commit suicide 自殺 If a person commits suicide, he or she kills himself or herself.

Commitment (n.) 託付，交託；委任 [U]；下獄；收監 [U]；關進精神病院 [U] The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.

They were glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower, whence he was within few days enlarged. -- Clarendon.

Cmmitment (n.) A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.

Commitment (n.) The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.

Commitment (n.) A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.

Commitment (n.) The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged. -- Hamilton.

Commitment (n.) The trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose; "a man of energy and commitment" [syn: {committedness}, {commitment}].

Commitment (n.) The act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action; "his long commitment to public service"; "they felt no loyalty to a losing team" [syn: {commitment}, {allegiance}, {loyalty}, {dedication}].

Commitment (n.) An engagement by contract involving financial obligation; "his business commitments took him to London".

Commitment (n.) A message that makes a pledge [syn: {commitment}, {dedication}].

Commitment (n.) The official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) [syn: {commitment}, {committal}, {consignment}].

Commitment (n.) Criminal law, practice. The warrant. or order by which a court or magistrate directs a ministerial officer to take a person to prison. The commitment is either for further hearing, (q.v.) or it is final.

Commitment (n.) The formal requisites of the commitment are, 1st. that it be in writing, under hand, and seal, and show the authority of the magistrate, and the time and place of making it. 3 Har. & McHen. 113; Charl. 280; 3 Cranch, R. 448; see Harp. R. 313. In this case it is said a seal is not indispensable.

Commitment (n.) It must be made in the name of the United States, or of the commonwealth, or people, as required by the constitution of the United States or, of the several states.

Commitment (n.) It should be directed to the keeper of the prison, and not generally to carry the party to prison. 2 Str. 934; 1 Ld. Raym. 424.

Commitment (n.) The prisoner should be described by his name and surname, or the name he gives as his.

Commitment (n.) The commitment ought to state that the party has been charged on oath. 3 Cranch, R.448. But see 2 Virg. Cas. 504; 2 Bail. R. 290.

Commitment (n.) The particular crime charged against the prisoner should be mentioned with convenient certainty. 3 Cranch, R. 449; 11 St. Tr. 304. 318; Hawk. B. 2, c. 16, s. 16 Chit. Cr. Law, 110.

Commitment (n.) The commitment should point out the place of imprisonment, and not merely direct that the party be taken to prison. 2 Str. 934; 1 Ld. Ray. 424.

Commitment (n.) In a final commitment, the command to the keeper of the prison should be to keep the prisoner "until he shall be discharged by due course of law," when the offence is not bailable; when it is bailable the gaoler should be, directed to keep the prisoner in his "said custody for want of sureties, or until he shall be discharged by due course of law." When the commitment is not final, it is usual to commit the prisoner "for further hearing." The commitment is also called a mittimus. (q.v.)

Commitment (n.) The act of sending a person to prison charged with the commission of a crime by virtue of such a warrant is also called a commitment. Vide, generally, 4 Vin. Ab. 576; Bac. Ab. h.t.; 4 Cranch, R. 129; 4 Dall. R. 412; 1 Ashm. R. 248; 1 Cowen, R. 144; 3 Conn. R. 502; Wright, R. 691; 2 Virg. Cas. 276; Hardin, R. 249; 4 Mass. R. 497; 14 John. R. 371 2 Virg. Cas. 594; 1 Tyler, R. 444; U. S. Dig. h.t.

Commitment (n.) (B2) [ C or U ] 忠誠；投入；奉獻；承諾，保證，諾言 A willingness to give your time and energy to something that you believe in, or a promise or firm decision to do something.

// Players must make a commitment to play for a full season.

// Her commitment to left-wing politics/the cause of feminism/the company.

// She is known chiefly for her commitment to nuclear disarmament.

// I'd like to thank the staff for having shown such commitment.

// Try the product out in the comfort of your own home with absolutely no commitment to buy!

Commitment (n.) (B2) [ C ] 必須做（或處理）的事情 Something that you must do or deal with that takes your time.

// Family/ work commitments.

I've got too many commitments at the moment to do an evening class.

Children are such a commitment.

Committable (a.) Capable of being committed.

Committal (n.) 委任；託付；承諾；義務；拘押；犯罪 The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment.

Committal (n.) The official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) [syn: commitment, committal, consignment].

Committal (n.) The act of committing a crime [syn: perpetration, commission, committal].

Committed (a.) (C2) 忠誠的；堅定的；盡忠職守的 Loyal and willing to give your time and energy to something that you believe in.

// A committed socialist/ Christian/ teacher.

Committed (a.) [ After verb ] 承諾過的，允諾過的 Having promised to be involved in a plan of action.

// We are committed to withdrawing our troops by the end of the year.

Committee (n.) [C] 委員會 [G]；【律】監護人 One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together.

Committee of the whole [house], A committee, embracing all the members present, into which a legislative or deliberative body sometimes resolves itself, for the purpose of considering a particular measure under the operation of different rules from those governing the general legislative proceedings. The committee of the whole has its own chairman, and reports its action in the form of recommendations.

Standing committee. See under Standing.

Committee (n.) (Law) One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.

Committee (n.) A special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" -- Milton Berle [syn: committee, commission].

Committee (n.) A self-constituted organization to promote something [syn: committee, citizens committee].

Committee, () practice. When a person has been found non compos, the law requires that a guardian should be appointed to take care of his person and estate; this guardian is called the committee.

Committee, () It is usual to select the committee from the next of kin; Shelf. on Lun. 137; and in case of the lunacy of the husband or wife, the one who is of sound mind is entitled, unless under very special circumstances, to be the committee of the other. Id. 140. This is the committee of the person. For committee of the estate, the heir at law is most favored. Relations are referred to strangers, but the latter may be appointed. Id. 144.

Committee, () It is the duty of the committee of the person, to take care of the lunatic; and the committee of the estate is bound to administer the estate faithfully, and to account for his administration. He cannot in general, make contracts in relation to the estate of the lunatic, or bind it, without a Special order of the court or authority that appointed him. Id. 179; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 389-91.

Committee, () legislation. One or more members of a legislative body to whom is specially referred some matter before that body, in order that they may investigate and examine into it and report to those who delegated this authority to them.

Committee (n.) [ C, + sing/ pl. verb ] (B2) （代表較大的組織決策或搜集資訊的）委員會 A small group of people chosen to represent a larger organization and either make decisions or collect information for it.

// She sits on/is on the school's development committee.

// The local council has just set up a committee to study recycling.

// A committee meeting.

Committeeman (n.) 委員 A member of a committee.

Committeeman (n.) A man who is a member of committee.

Committer (n.) One who commits; one who does or perpetrates. -- South.

Committer (n.) A fornicator. [Obs.] -- T. Decker.

Committible (a.) Capable of being committed; liable to be committed. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.

Commixed (imp. & p. p.) of Commix.

Commixing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commix.

Commix (v. t. & i.) (v. t.) 使混合； (v. i.) 混合To mix or mingle together; to blend.

The commixed impressions of all the colors do stir up and beget a sensation of white. -- Sir I. Newton.

To commix With winds that sailors rail at. -- Shak.

Commix (v.) To bring or combine together or with something else; "resourcefully he mingled music and dance" [syn: mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate].

Commixion (n.) Commixture. -- Shak.

Commixtion (n.) Commixture; mingling. [R.]

An exact commixtion of the ingredients. -- Boyle.

Commixtion, () civil law. This term is used to signify the act by which goods are mixed together.

Commixtion, () The matters which are mixed are dry or liquid. In the commixtion of the former, the matter retains its substance and individuality; in the latter, the substances no longer remain distinct. The commixtion of liquids is called confusion, (q.v.) and that of solids, a mixture. Lec. Elem. du Dr. Rom. Sec. 370, 371; Story, Bailm. Sec. 40; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 506.

Commixture (n.) 【罕】混合；混合物 The act or process of mixing; the state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound.

In the commixture of anything that is more oily or sweet, such bodies are least apt to putrefy. -- Bacon.

Commixture (n.) The mass formed by mingling different things; a compound; a mixture. -- Bacon.

Commixture (n.) The act of mixing together; "paste made by a mix of flour and water"; "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio" [syn: mix, commixture, admixture, mixture, intermixture, mixing].

Commodate (n.) (Scots Law) 〈蘇格蘭〉財物的無償出借 A gratuitous loan.

Commodate, () contracts. A term used in the Scotch law, which is synonymous to the Latin commodatum, or loan for use. Ersk. Inst. B. 3, t. 1, Sec. 20; 1 Bell's Com. 225; Ersk. Pr. Laws of Scotl. B. 3, t. 1, Sec. 9.

Commodate, () Judge Story regrets this term has not been adopted and naturalized, as mandate has been from mandatum. Story, Com. Sec. 221. Ayliffe, in his Pandects, has gone further, and terms the bailor the commodant, and the bailee the commodatory, thus avoiding those circumlocutions, which, in the common phraseology of our law, have become almost indispensable. Ayl. Pand. B. 4, t. 16, p. 517. Browne, in his Civil Law, vol. 1, 352, calls the property loaned "commodated property." See Borrower; Loan for use; Lender.

Commode (n.) 衣櫃；櫥；洗臉臺；室內便器 A kind of headdress formerly worn by ladies, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.

Or under high commodes, with looks erect. -- Granville.

Commode (n.) A piece of furniture, so named according to temporary fashion; as.

Commode (n.) A chest of drawers or a bureau.

Commode (n.) A night stand with a compartment for holding a chamber vessel.

Commode (n.) A kind of close stool.

Commode (n.) A movable sink or stand for a wash bowl, with closet.

Compare: Lavatory

Lavatory (n.; pl. Lavatories.) 廁所；盥洗室；洗手間 A place for washing.

Lavatory (n.) A basin or other vessel for washing in.

Lavatory (n.) A wash or lotion for a diseased part.

Lavatory (n.) A place where gold is obtained by washing.

Lavatory (n.) A room containing one or more sinks for washing, as well as one or more toilet fixtures; also called bathroom, toilet, and sometimes commode. Commode and toilet may refer to a room with only a toilet fixture, but without a sink.

Syn: toilet, lavatory, can, facility, john, privy, bathroom.

Commode (n.) A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne].

Commode (n.) A tall elegant chest of drawers [syn: chiffonier, commode].

Commodious (a.) 寬敞的，寬敞而便利的 Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house. "A commodious drab." -- Shak. "Commodious gold." -- Pope.

The haven was not commodious to winter in. -- Acts xxvii. 12.

Syn: Convenient; suitable; fit; proper; advantageous; serviceable; useful; spacious; comfortable.

Commodious (a.) Large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense); "a commodious harbor"; "a commodious building suitable for conventions" [syn: commodious, convenient] [ant: incommodious].

Commodiously (adv.) In a commodious manner.

Commodiousness (n.) State of being commodious; suitableness for its purpose; convenience; roominess.

Commodities (n. pl. ) of Commodity.

Commodity (n.) Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness.

Commodity (n.) That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc.

Commodity (n.) A parcel or quantity of goods.

Commodore (n.) An officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier general in the army.

Commodore (n.) A captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral.

Commodore (n.) A title given by courtesy to the senior captain of a line of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a yachting or rowing club.

Commodore (n.) A familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel of a squadron or fleet.

Common (a.) Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.

Though life and sense be common to men and brutes. -- Sir M. Hale.

Common (a.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer.

Such actions as the common good requireth. -- Hooker.

The common enemy of man. -- Shak.

Common (a.) Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.

Grief more than common grief. -- Shak.

Common (a.) Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.

The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. -- W. Irving.

This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. -- Shak.

Above the vulgar flight of common souls. -- A. Murphy.

Common (a.) Profane; polluted. [Obs.]

What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. -- Acts x. 15.

Common (a.) Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.

A dame who herself was common. -- L'Estrange.

Common bar (Law) Same as Blank bar, under Blank.

Common barrator (Law), One who makes a business of instigating litigation.

Common Bench, A name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas.

Common brawler (Law), One addicted to public brawling and quarreling. See Brawler.

Common carrier (Law), One who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in consequence of the act of God, or of the enemies of the country, or of the owner of the property himself.

Common chord (Mus.), A chord consisting of the fundamental tone, with its third and fifth.

Common council, The representative (legislative) body, or the lower branch of the representative body, of a city or other municipal corporation.

Common crier, The crier of a town or city.

Common divisor (Math.), A number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a common measure.

Common gender (Gram.), The gender comprising words that may be of either the masculine or the feminine gender.

Common law, A system of jurisprudence developing under the guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. -- Wharton.

Note: It is by others defined as the unwritten law (especially of England), the law that receives its binding force from immemorial usage and universal reception, as ascertained and expressed in the judgments of the courts. This term is often used in contradistinction from statute law. Many use it to designate a law common to the whole country. It is also used to designate the whole body of English (or other) law, as distinguished from its subdivisions, local, civil, admiralty, equity, etc. See Law.

Common lawyer, One versed in common law.

Common lewdness (Law), The habitual performance of lewd acts in public.

Common multiple (Arith.) See under Multiple.

Common noun (Gram.), The name of any one of a class of objects, as distinguished from a proper noun (the name of a particular person or thing).

Common nuisance (Law), That which is deleterious to the health or comfort or sense of decency of the community at large.

Common pleas, One of the three superior courts of common law at Westminster, presided over by a chief justice and four puisne judges. Its jurisdiction is confined to civil matters. Courts bearing this title exist in several of the United States, having, however, in some cases, both civil and criminal jurisdiction extending over the whole State.

In other States the jurisdiction of the common pleas is limited to a county, and it is sometimes called a county court. Its powers are generally defined by statute.

Common prayer, The liturgy of the Church of England, or of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States, which all its clergy are enjoined to use. It is contained in the Book of Common Prayer.

Common school, A school maintained at the public expense, and open to all.

Common scold (Law), A woman addicted to scolding indiscriminately, in public.

Common seal, A seal adopted and used by a corporation.

Common sense. A supposed sense which was held to be the common bond of all the others. [Obs.] -- Trench.

Common sense. Sound judgment. See under Sense.

Common time (Mus.), That variety of time in which the measure consists of two or of four equal portions.

In common, Equally with another, or with others; owned, shared, or used, in community with others; affecting or affected equally.

Out of the common, Uncommon; extraordinary.

Tenant in common, One holding real or personal property in common with others, having distinct but undivided interests. See Joint tenant, under Joint.

To make common cause with, To join or ally one's self with.

Syn: General; public; popular; national; universal; frequent; ordinary; customary; usual; familiar; habitual; vulgar; mean; trite; stale; threadbare; commonplace. See Mutual, Ordinary, General.

Common (n.) The people; the community. [Obs.] "The weal o' the common." -- Shak.

Common (n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons.

Common (n.) (Law) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.

Common appendant, A right belonging to the owners or occupiers of arable land to put commonable beasts upon the waste land in the manor where they dwell.

Common appurtenant, A similar right applying to lands in other manors, or extending to other beasts, besides those which are generally commonable, as hogs.

Common because of vicinage or Common because of neighborhood, The right of the inhabitants of each of two townships, lying contiguous to each other, which have usually intercommoned with one another, to let their beasts stray into the other's fields.

Common in gross or Common at large, A common annexed to a man's person, being granted to him and his heirs by deed; or it may be claimed by prescriptive right, as by a parson of a church or other corporation sole. -- Blackstone.

Common of estovers, The right of taking wood from another's estate.

Common of pasture, The right of feeding beasts on the land of another. -- Burill.

Common of piscary, The right of fishing in waters belonging to another.

Common of turbary, The right of digging turf upon the ground of another.

Common (v. i.) To converse together; to discourse; to confer. [Obs.]

Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of. -- Grafton.

Common (v. i.) To participate. [Obs.] -- Sir T. More.
Common (v. i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground. -- Johnson.

Common (v. i.) To board together; to eat at a table in common.

Common (a.) Belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public; "for the common good"; "common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community" [ant: individual, single].

Common (a.) Having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap" [ant: uncommon].

Common (a.) Common to or shared by two or more parties; "a common friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor" [syn: common, mutual].

Common (a.) Commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting" [syn: common, usual].

Common (a.) Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species" [syn: common, vernacular, vulgar].

Common (a.) Of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses" [syn: common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed].

Common (a.) Of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population" [syn: coarse, common].

Common (a.) Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" [syn: coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar].

Common (a.) To be expected; standard; "common decency."

Common (n.) A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park" [syn: park, commons, common, green].

Common. () or right of common, English law. An encorporeal hereditament, which consists in a profit which a man has in the lands of another. 12 S. & R. 32; 10 Wend. R. 647; 11 John. R. 498; 2 Bouv. Inst. 1640, et seq.

Common. () Common is of four sorts; of pasture, piscary, turbary and estovers. Finch's Law, 157; Co. Litt. 122; 2 Inst. 86; 2 Bl. Com. 32.

Common. () Common of pasture is a right of feeding one's beasts on another's land, and is either appendant, appurtenant, or in gross.

Common. () Common appendant is of common right, and it may be claimed in pleading as appendant, without laying a prescription. Hargr. note to 2 Inst. 122, a note.

Common. () Rights of common appurtenant to the claimant's land are altogether independent of the tenure, and do not arise from any absolute necessity; but may be annexed to lands in other lordships, or extended to other beasts besides. such as are generally commonable.

Common. () Common in gross, or at large, is such as is neither appendant nor appurtenant to land, but is annexed to a man's person. All these species of pasturable common, may be and usually are limited to number and time; but there are also commons without stint, which last all the year. 2 Bl. Com. 34.

Common. () Common of piscary is the liberty of fishing in another man's water. lb. See Fishery.

Common. () Common of turbary is the liberty of digging turf in another man's ground. Ib.

Common. () Common of estovers is the liberty of taking necessary wood-for the use or furniture of a house or farm from another man's estate. Ib.; 10 Wend. R. 639. See Estovers.

Common. () The right of common is little known in the United States, yet there are some regulations to be found in relation to this subject. The constitution of Illinois provides for the continuance of certain commons in that state. Const. art. 8, s. 8.

Common. () All unappropriated lands on the Chesapeake Bay, on the Shore of the sea, or of any river or creek, and the bed of any river or creek, in the eastern parts of the commonwealth, ungranted and used as common, it is declared by statute in Virginia, shall remain so, and not be subject to grant. 1 Virg. Rev. C. 142.

Common. () In most of the cities and towns in the United States, there are considerable tracts of land appropriated to public use. These commons were generally laid out with the cities or towns where they are found, either by the original proprietors or by the early inhabitants. Vide 2 Pick. Rep. 475; 12 S. & R. 32; 2 Dane's. Ab. 610; 14 Mass. R. 440; 6 Verm. 355. See, in general, Vin. Abr. Common; Bac. Abr. Common; Com. Dig. Common; Stark. Ev. part 4, p. 383; Cruise on Real Property, h.t.; Metc. & Perk. Dig. Common, and Common lands and General fields.

Common, Tenants in. Tenants in common are such as hold an estate, real or personal, by several distinct titles, but by a unity of possession. Vide Tenant in common; Estate in common.

Commonable (a.) Held in common. "Forests . . . and other commonable places." -- Bacon.

Commonable (a.) Allowed to pasture on public commons.

Commonable beasts are either beasts of the plow, or such as manure the ground. -- Blackstone.

Commonage (n.) 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. -- Burke.

Commonage (n.) Property held in common.

Commonalties (n. pl. ) of Commonalty.

Commonalty (n.) The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.

The commonalty, like the nobility, are divided into several degrees. -- Blackstone.

The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the commonalty in plenteousness only. -- Landon.

Commonalty (n.) The majority or bulk of mankind. [Obs.] -- Hooker.

Commonalty (n.) A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank [syn: commonalty, commonality, commons].

Commonalty, () Eng. law. This word signifies, 1st. the common people of England, as contradistinguished from the king and the nobles; 2d. the body of a society as the masters, wardens, and commonalty of such a society.

Commoner (n.) One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.

All below them [the peers] even their children, were commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each other. -- Hallam.

Commoner (n.) A member of the House of Commons.

Commoner (n.) One who has a joint right in common ground.

Much good land might be gained from forests . . . and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury. -- Bacon.

Commoner (n.) One sharing with another in anything. [Obs.] -- Fuller.

Commoner (n.) A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; -- at Cambridge called a pensioner.

Commoner (n.) A prostitute. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Commoner (n.) A person who holds no title [syn: commoner, common man, common person].

Commonish (a.) Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.

Commonition (n.) Advice; warning; instruction. [Obs.] -- Bailey.

Commonitive (a.) Monitory. [Obs.]

Only commemorative and commonitive. -- Bp. Hall.
Commonitory (a.) Calling to mind; giving admonition. [Obs.] -- Foxe.

Commonly (adv.) Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life.

Commonly (adv.) In common; familiarly. [Obs.] -- Spenser.

Commonly (adv.) Under normal conditions; "usually she was late" [syn: normally, usually, unremarkably, commonly, ordinarily] [ant: outstandingly, remarkably, unco, unusually].

Commonness (n.) State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.

Commonness (n.) Triteness; meanness.

Commonness (n.) The state of being that is commonly observed [syn: commonness, expectedness].

Commonness (n.) The quality of lacking taste and refinement [syn: coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch].

Commonness (n.) Ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace [syn: commonness, commonplaceness, everydayness] [ant: uncommonness].

Commonness (n.) Sharing of common attributes [syn: commonality, commonness] [ant: individualism, individuality, individuation].

Commonplace (a.) 平淡無味的；平凡的，普通的；陳腐的 Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.

Commonplace (n.) [C] 司空見慣的事；老生常談；陳詞濫調 An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.

Commonplace (n.) A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.

Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. -- Swift.

{Commonplace book}, A book in which records are made of things to be remembered.

Commonplace (v. t.) To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. -- Felton.

Commonplace (v. i.) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.] -- Bacon.

Commonplace (a.) Completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities".

Commonplace (a.) Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" [syn: {commonplace}, {humdrum}, {prosaic}, {unglamorous}, {unglamourous}].

Commonplace (a.) Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: {banal}, {commonplace}, {hackneyed}, {old-hat}, {shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn}, {tired}, {trite}, {well-worn}].

Commonplace (n.) A trite or obvious remark [syn: {platitude}, {cliche}, {banality}, {commonplace}, {bromide}].

Commonplaceness (n.) The quality of being commonplace; commonness. Common room.

Commonplaceness (n.) Ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace [syn: {commonness}, {commonplaceness}, {everydayness}] [ant: {uncommonness}].

Commons (n. pl.) 平民百姓 [the S] [K]；共餐食物 [U]；（大學的）公共食堂 [J]；（常大寫）（英國）下議院 [the S] [G]；（常大寫）（英國）下議院議員 [K]；common 的名詞複數 The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. [Eng.]

'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign. -- Shak.

The word commons in its present ordinary signification comprises all the people who are under the rank of peers. -- Blackstone.

Commons (n. pl.) The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities.

It is agreed that the Commons were no part of the great council till some ages after the Conquest. -- Hume.

Commons (n. pl.) Provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities.

Their commons, though but coarse, were nothing scant. -- Dryden.

Commons (n. pl.) A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons.

Commons (n. pl.) A common; public pasture ground.

To shake his ears, and graze in commons. -- Shak.

{Doctors' Commons}, A place near St. Paul's Churchyard in London where the doctors of civil law used to common together, and where were the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage licenses, divorces, registration of wills, etc.

{To be on short commons}, To have a small allowance of food. Common sense

Commons (n.) A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park" [syn: {park}, {commons}, {common}, {green}].

Commons (n.) A pasture subject to common use [syn: {commons}, {common land}].

Commons (n.) A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank [syn: {commonalty}, {commonality}, {commons}].

Commons (n.) The common people [syn: {third estate}, {Commons}].

Commons (n. pl.), Eng. law. Those subjects of the English nation who are not noblemen. They are represented in parliament in the house of commons.

Common sense (n.) 常識 See Common sense, under Sense.

{Common sense}, According to Sir W. Hamilton:

(a) "The complement of those cognitions or convictions which we receive from nature, which all men possess in common, and by which they test the truth of knowledge and the morality of actions."

(b) "The faculty of first principles." These two are the philosophical significations.

(d) When the substantive is emphasized: "Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning or of speculation."

Common sense (n.) Sound practical judgment; "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away" [syn: common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit].

Common sense (n.) [ U ] (B1) 常識 The basic level of practical knowledge and judgment that we all need to help us live in a reasonable and safe way.

// Windsurfing is perfectly safe as long as you have/ use some common sense.

// A matter of common sense.

Commonty (n.) A common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right. -- Bell.

Commonweal (n.) 公益；【古】共和國 Commonwealth.

Such a prince, So kind a father of the commonweal. -- Shak.

Commonweal (n.) The good of a community [syn: {common good}, {commonweal}].

Commonwealth (n.) 全體國民，全體公民 [G]；政治實體，國家；共和國，民主國 [C]；（大寫）聯邦 [the S]；【美】（大寫）州（尤用於麻薩諸塞、賓夕凡尼亞、肯塔基、維吉尼亞四州）[the S]；【美】（常大寫）自治政區；（由共同利益或興趣組成的）協會界；【古】公益，公共福利 A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.

Commonwealth (n.) The whole body of people in a state; the public.

Commonwealth (n.) Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.

Commonwealth (n.) The official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico).

Commonwealth (n.) A politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" [syn: {state}, {nation}, {country}, {land}, {commonwealth}, {res publica}, {body politic}].

Commonwealth (n.) A world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another.

Commonwealth (n.) A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them [syn: {democracy}, {republic}, {commonwealth}].

Commorance (n.) See Commorancy.

Commorancy (n.) A dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation.

Commorancy consists in usually lying there. -- Blackstone.

Commorancy (n.) (Am. Law) Residence temporarily, or for a short time.

Commorancy (n.), persons. An abiding dwelling, or continuing as an inhabitant in any place. It consists, properly, in sleeping usually in one place.

Commorant (n.) (Law) Ordinarily residing; inhabiting.

Commorant (n.) (Am. Law) Inhabiting or occupying temporarily.

Commorant (n.) A resident. -- Bp. Hacket.

Commorant (n.) One residing or inhabiting a particular place. Barnes, 162.

Commoration (n.) The act of staying or residing in a place. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.

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