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Belonging or relating equally, or similary, 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.

See Common sense, under Sense.

Held in common. "Forests . . . and other commonable places." Bacon.

The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. The claim of comonage . . . in most of the forests. Burke.

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.

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 law equal to each other. Hallam.

Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.

Advice; warning; instruction. [Obs.] Bailey.

Monitory. [Obs.] Only commemorative and commonitive. Bp. Hall.

Calling to mind; giving admonition. [Obs.] Foxe.

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

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

Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.

The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled chasses 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…

A common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right. Bell.

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

rm of government and system of laws. The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Milton.

To deprive of the right of common. [R.] Bp. Hall.

A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.