[Colloq.]
Common sense
(Com"mon sense") See Common sense, under Sense.
Commonty
(Com"mon*ty) n. (Scots Law) A common; a piece of land in which two or more persons
have a common right. Bell.
Commonweal
(Com"mon*weal") n. [Common + weal.] Commonwealth.
Such a prince,
So kind a father of the commonweal.
Shak.
Commonwealth
(Com"mon*wealth`) n. [Common + wealth well-being.]
1. 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.
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
Milton.
This term is applied to governments which are considered as free or popular, but rarely, or improperly, to
an absolute government. The word signifies, strictly, the common well-being or happiness; and hence,
a form of government in which the general welfare is regarded rather than the welfare of any class.
2. The whole body of people in a state; the public.
3. (Eng. Hist.) 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.
Syn. — State; realm; republic.
Commorance
(Com"mo*rance) n. See Commorancy.
Commorancy
(Com"mo*ran*cy) n.
1. (Law) A dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation.
Commorancy consists in usually lying there.
Blackstone.
2. (Am. Law) Residence temporarily, or for a short time.
Commorant
(Com"mo*rant) n. [L. commorans, p. pr. of commorari to abide; com- + morari to delay.]
1. (Law) Ordinarily residing; inhabiting.
All freeholders within the precinct . . . and all persons commorant therein.
Blackstone.
2. (Am. Law) Inhabiting or occupying temporarily.
Commorant
(Com"mo*rant), n. A resident. Bp. Hacket.
