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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…

Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life.

A dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation. Commorancy consists in usually lying there. Blackstone.

Ordinarily residing; inhabiting. All freeholders within the precinct . . . and all persons commorant therein. Blackstone.

-- to use the technical words of the time -- of the "commune", the general mass of the inhabitants, against the "prudhommes" or "wiser" few. J. R. Green.

*tive"ly, adv. Rich traders, from their success, are presumed . . . to have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice. Burke.

The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature. [Obs.] If his complexion incline him to melancholy. Milton. It is the complexion of them all to leave the dam. Shak.

se, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music. "The constant habit of elaborate composition." Macaulay.

The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine.

A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.

f persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet. He [Bunyan] rode every year to London, and preached there to large and attentive congregations. Macaulay.

magic arts; to excite or alter, as if by magic or by the aid of supernatural powers. The habitation which your prophet . . . conjured the devil into. Shak. To conjure up, or make visible, as a spirit, by magic arts; hence, to invent; as, to conjure up a story; to conjure up alarms.

Nutritious by force of habit; -- said of certain kinds of food. [Obs.] Crabb.

The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.

Custom, habit; usage. [R.] To observe this consuetude or law. Barnes .

And renownShak. Consummation of marrige, completion of the connubial relation by actual cohabition.

A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay. Great plagues, and of long continuence. Deut. xxviii. 59. Patient continuance i well-doing. Rom. ii. 7.

To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease. Each from each contract new strength and light. Pope. Such behavior we contract by having much conversed with persons of high statiSwift.

The state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy. [R.]

A person of convivial habits.