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Capable of being committed.

The act of commiting, or the state of being committed; commitment.

Capable of being committed; liable to be committed. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

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.

State of being commodious; suitableness for its purpose; convience; roominess. Of cities, the greatness and riches increase according to the commodiousness of their situation. Sir W. Temple. The commodiousness of the harbor. Johnson.

the other's fields. -- Common in gross or 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. --…

State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.

The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

To commove; to disturb; to stir up. [R.] Society being more or less commoted and made uncomfortable. Hawthorne.

The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted.

Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.

The quality of being communicative. Norris.

The quality of being commutable.

Capable of being commuted or interchanged. The predicate and subject are not commutable. Whately.

The quality of being commutable; interchangeableness.

(24 Stat. 379), and in 145 U. S. 263 it was held that party tickets were also excepted as being "obviously within the commuting principle."

ent for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares. The sounds water and fire, being once annexed to those two elements, it was certainly more natural to call beings participating of the first "watery", and the last "fiery", than to commute the terms, and call them by the reverse. J. Harris The utmost that c…

A state of being compact.

The act of making compact, or the state of being compact. [Obs.] Bacon.

The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density.