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A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.

ted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community.

In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. [Obs.] The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war. J. R. Green.

ilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an imunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote. Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franchise of the Americ…

elfare; prosperity; advantage; benefit; -- opposed to harm, etc. The good of the whole community can be promoted only by advancing the good of each of the members composing it. Jay.

One of a community established at Rome, by Charlemagne, to guide pilgrims to the Holy Land.

A head or leading man, especially of a village community.

ave or serf. Those unfortunates, the Helots of mankind, more or less numerous in every community. I. Taylor.

Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.

s as the symbol of Christ's crucifixion. Congregation of the Holy Cross (R. C. Ch.), a community of lay brothers and priests, in France and the United States, engaged chiefly in teaching and manual Labor. Originally called Brethren of St. Joseph. The Sisters of the Holy Cross engage in similar work. Addis & Arnold. --…

To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community. Addison.

untry to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community. Addison.

Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty. Having first obtained a promise of indemnity for the riot they had committed. Sir W. Scott.

wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community. Such influence hath your excellency. Sir P. Sidney.

ety or corporation; an establishment, especially of a public character, or affecting a community; a foundation; as, a literary institution; a charitable institution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution.

of juridical law; the knowledge of the laws, customs, and rights of men in a state or community, necessary for the due administration of justice. The talents of Abelard were not confined to theology, jurisprudence, philosophy. J. Warton. Medical jurisprudence, that branch of juridical law which concerns questions of m…

o left the Roman Catholic Church and taught a kind of mysticism, and the obligation of community of property among Christians.

stablishing and defining the conditions of the existence of a state or other organized community.

A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body. The legislators in ancient and heroical times. Bacon. Many of the legislators themselves had taken an oath of abjuration of his Majesty's person and family. E. Phillips.

eenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women.