commontyn.

Brit.

/ˈkɒmənti/, U.S.

/ˈkɑmən(t)i/

Forms: Middle English commaunte, Middle English commovnte, Middle English communte, Middle English commvnte, Middle English comnete (perhaps transmission error), Middle English comontee, Middle English comounte, Middle English comountee, Middle English comoute, Middle English comownte, Middle English comunte, Middle English comyntee, Middle English–1500s comente, Middle English–1500s commente, Middle English–1500s commonte, Middle English–1500s commontee, Middle English–1500s comonte, Middle English–1500s comontye, Middle English–1500s comynte, Middle English–1500s comynty, Middle English–1600s commontie, Middle English–1600s commontye, Middle English–1600s comontie, late Middle English (in a late copy)–1500s commentye, 1500s comenty, 1500s commenti, 1500s–1600s comentie, 1500s–1600s commentie, 1500s–1600s commenty, 1500s– commonty, 1600s comonty; Scottish pre-1700 commondtye, pre-1700 commonte, pre-1700 commonteys (plural), pre-1700 commonti, pre-1700 commontie, pre-1700 commontye, pre-1700 commounte, pre-1700 commountee, pre-1700 commountie, pre-1700 commounty, pre-1700 commountye, pre-1700 commowntie, pre-1700 comonte, pre-1700 comontie, pre-1700 comountie, pre-1700 comownties (plural), pre-1700 comunte, pre-1700 comuntie, pre-1700 1700s– commonty. N.E.D. (1891) also records a form late Middle English comentie.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: common adj., -ty suffix¹; community n.

Etymology: Partly (i) < common adj. + -ty suffix¹, and partly (ii) an alteration of community n., after common adj. and common n.¹ Compare communion n. and later commonity n.Compare Old French (northern, rare) comuneté, comunteit, comonteit, Old French, Middle French (rare) communeté fellowship, community, joint use (all 13th cent.).

†1. The people of a country, city, etc., as a whole; a state, nation, or community. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun]

commona1382

commontya1382

policya1393

communitya1398

commonweal?a1400

politic1429

commonwealth1445

well public1447

public thinga1450

public weala1470

body politica1475

weal-public1495

statea1500

politic bodyc1537

body1545

public state1546

civil-wealth1547

republic?1549

state1553

polity1555

publica1586

estate1605

corps politic1696

negara1955

negeri1958

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xxi. 15 (MED) Ne menge he þe lynage of his kynde to þe comunte of his peple.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 87 Euery kingdom or comounte dyvidid in him silf schal be destruyed.

1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) v. xxii. sig. nvii^v/2 Euery man is a parte of the comonte.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxl. 167 To kepe y^e commentie of Flanders in frendshyppe.

1660 T. R. Royall Subj. Warning-Piece (single sheet) ii./2 Curse the day that ever you did know Bold Oliver, I say, that traitor, Englands foe; He being a Brewers Son you liquored well your throat, the Commenty you have undone Yet now beware a Rope.

†2. A particular group or fellowship of people; a religious community or brotherhood; a trade guild. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 157 Þe mene tyme Marius foundede an idel forto meove þe comounte of horsmen.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 133 (MED) Cold & moiste aier, brede crude & þerf, & leguminez..ar forbedde to hem of þe comontee of leches [?c1425 Paris þe communete of leches; L. communitate medicorum].

1440 in W. H. Black Hist. & Antiq. Worshipful Company of Leathersellers (1871) 25 (MED) On peyne of forfeture of the seid fellys..to the use of the Comynte.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 27 (MED) As al men of a comynte berun punisching for þe defaut of two or on.

†3. Ordinary people as distinguished from the aristocracy or upper classes; commoners or common people regarded as a class or group. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun]

folkc888

peoplea1325

frapec1330

commona1350

common peoplea1382

commonsa1382

commontya1387

communityc1400

meiniec1400

commonaltya1425

commonsa1500

vulgarsa1513

many1526

meinie1532

multitude1535

the many-headed beast (also monster)1537

number1542

ignobility1546

commonitya1550

popular1554

populace1572

popularya1578

vulgarity?1577

populacya1583

rout1589

the vulgar1590

plebs1591

mobile vulgusc1599

popularity1599

ignoble1603

the million1604

plebe1612

plebeity1614

the common filea1616

the herda1616

civils1644

commonality1649

democracy1656

menu1658

mobile1676

crowd1683

vulgusa1687

mob1691

Pimlico parliament?1774

citizenry1795

polloi1803

demos1831

many-headed1836

hoi polloi1837

the masses1837

citizenhood1843

John Q.1922

wimble-wamble1937

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 115 Þe comounte [L. plebem] of Rome.

1483 W. Caxton in tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cccxxiii^v/1 Grete oppressions and Importable charges among the comonte.

a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) v. vi. sig. I.j^v The nobilitie..With all the whole commontie.

1599 T. Heywood 1st Pt. King Edward IV sig. J The king wants money, & would haue some of his Comentie.

1639 W. Balcanquhall Large Declar. Tumults Scotl. 253 In case of negligence, it is Suppletive in the collective bodie, as being communicate from the Commontie to the King, Cumulative not Privative: but also in case of maladministration, to returne to the collective bodie.

1665 R. Brathwait Captive-captain 172 This County consists of two sorts; and in these two, dissorted into different opinions. The Gentry and Commonty.

4. Law (chiefly Scottish). Joint use or possession. Chiefly in in commonty: in joint use or possession; to be held or enjoyed equally by a number of people. Now historical (rare after mid 18th cent.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > owning > [noun] > collective ownership

commontya1425

communitya1475

commonness1530

commonality1680

collectivity1872

a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 5209 With hem holdyng comunte Of all her goode in charite.

a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 24592 (MED) I ha noo pocessioun nor nothyng in propurte, but al thyng in communyte; al propurte I ha forsake.

1578 in P. J. Anderson Charters & Writs Royal Burgh Aberdeen (1890) 339 Ordanis the spott of brunt land on the south syd of the mos of the Gardyne to ly ley in commontie.

1641 in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 106 His Majestie..gave grantit and disponit to the said brugh in commontie..all and haill the landes of Glentrase.

1850 Rep. Supreme Courts Scotl. 22 176/1 How can a third party..be allowed to say that he will show that these parties had a right, which they disclaim, and that the lands belong to them in common—aye to them alone in commonty.

1979 I. Whyte Agric. & Soc. 17th Cent. Scotl. iii. 83 Much of the permanent pasture was in commonty.

5. Scottish. Land held in common; a common (common n.¹ 3a) or piece of common land. Cf. commonty land n. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land held by community

commonty1450

commonty land1537

communal land1876

1450 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis (1856) I. 143 Ye marchis off ye landis off Menmur bayth off propirtye and commontye.

1555 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 213 The baillies counsale and communite ordanis ane man to be conducit to feid and pasture thair yeild nolt in thair commonte of Glentres als sone as thai may.

1600 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1600/11/24 Diverse persones hes ryvin out, parkit, teillit, sawin and laubourit great portionis of the samin commounteis, without ony richt of propirtie competent to thame.

1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. II. iii. iii. 302 Commonty..in our law language and in charters, it frequently signifies a heath or muir.

1883 Scotsman 23 July 5/7 The commonty of Harray has all been divided between the heritors.

1939 F. Drake-Carnell It's Old Sc. Custom 66 If any nobleman..or others, having lands lying contiguous or adjacent to the said Commonty, shall find themselves leized or prejudiced in any sort by this day's marching, they are hereby required to state their objections.

2014 Courier (Dundee) 24 Dec. (Perth & Perthshire ed.) 7/2 His talk, entitled Down by the Kirkgate Shore, offered an insight into its time as a ‘commonty’, where local people had grazing rights for their animals.

6. Scots Law. The right to use common land; right of common. Frequently in right of commonty. Cf. commonage n. 1a, common n.¹ 4. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > tenure and rights > [noun] > rights

pannage1392

commonc1405

stint1437

agistmenta1450

intercommon1449

commonty1466

foggage1471

communitya1475

gist1493

commoning?a1509

arrentationc1540

wether gang1561

browsage1570

pasturage1572

feed1575

intercommoner1581

frankfold1609

broouage1610

fellow commoner1612

horsegate1619

frankfoldage1628

shack1629

tatha1641

retropannage1679

levancy and couchancya1691

commonance1701

stinter1701

horse-lease1721

stray1736

goose-gate1739

commonage1792

twinter1846

couchance1886

levance1886

sheep-stray1891

stintholder1894

1466 in J. B. Paul Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1882) II. 215/1 Jhonne..sall brouke comoun pastour and fewell..in oure south mure of commonti.

1541 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1540/12/103 With..commounty in the saidis muris, myris and moss.

1611 in C. C. Harvey Cal. Writs Yester House (1930) 307 Teilling and outryveing the land on the west syde of the westmure of Duncanlaw to the which we pretended commonty.

a1713 J. Stewart Dirleton's Doubts (1715) 31 As to a Commonty within the Property of other Superiors, the Clause cum comuni Pastura..will not be a Ground of Prescription.

1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 66 660 The agricultural labourer..had, moreover, rights of pasturage and commonty..which have long ago disappeared.

1994 Scotsman (Nexis) 14 Sept. The council's secretary..said locals found it hard to believe an individual could acquire the title to land everyone knew belonged to all the village ‘under right of commonty’.

†7. Scottish. The land or district lying round a city, town, etc., and under its jurisdiction; territory. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

c1600 in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 54 Gif ane burges be takin without the burgh for ony debt or trespas, his nichtbouris sall pas and repledge him upon thair awin expensis, gif he wes takin within the commountie of the burgh.

†8. A comedy. Obsolete.An isolated use, representing a malapropism.

ΚΠ

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. ii. 133 It is not a Comontie, a Christmas gambold, or a tumbling tricke?

Compounds

commonty land n. Scottish now historical land held in common; a common (common n.¹ 3a) or piece of common land; = sense 5.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land held by community

commonty1450

commonty land1537

communal land1876

1537 in J. Stuart Rec. Monastery Kinloss (1872) 145 The said Gilbert his heirs and tennents sal cast fewell at their pleasure ony part of the said hill of ffindon outwith the said Patrick's property and outwith the said Gilbert and his tennents Commonty landis and sicklike in the commond mure or ony other place within the said Barony.

1886 Aberdeen Jrnl. 13 Aug. 4/6 It was rumoured..that Francis Harper, along with some others, intended shooting over parts of Genavon, Glencat, and the forest of Birse, which they assert is Commonty land.

2012 R. Dodgshon in T. M. Devine & J. Wormald Oxf. Handbk. Mod. Sc. Hist. vi. 142 Smallholdings..were established on extensive areas of marginal waste ground, including many on the privatized blocks of former commonty land created by mid-eighteenth century divisions.

† commonty fire Obsolete (at Cambridge University) (perhaps) a fire provided at the common expense of the fellows of a college; a social meeting around such a fire.Only recorded in the writings of G. Harvey.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > a kind of fire > other fires

moorburn1424

coal firea1450

commonty fire1573

moor-burning1610

stubble-firea1618

wheel-fire1662

night-fire1687

waterball1696

chip fire1795

neal-fire1813

bratchel1815

forge-fire1855

log-fire1878

electrical fire1900

slash fire1949

dumpster fire1957

chip pan fire1960

chip fire1985

1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 4 After dinner and supper, at commenti fiers..I continuid as long as ani, and was as fellowli as the best.

1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 5 At a commenti fier in M. Jacksuns chamber this last year.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	commonty
释义	commontyn. Brit. /ˈkɒmənti/, U.S. /ˈkɑmən(t)i/ Forms: Middle English commaunte, Middle English commovnte, Middle English communte, Middle English commvnte, Middle English comnete (perhaps transmission error), Middle English comontee, Middle English comounte, Middle English comountee, Middle English comoute, Middle English comownte, Middle English comunte, Middle English comyntee, Middle English–1500s comente, Middle English–1500s commente, Middle English–1500s commonte, Middle English–1500s commontee, Middle English–1500s comonte, Middle English–1500s comontye, Middle English–1500s comynte, Middle English–1500s comynty, Middle English–1600s commontie, Middle English–1600s commontye, Middle English–1600s comontie, late Middle English (in a late copy)–1500s commentye, 1500s comenty, 1500s commenti, 1500s–1600s comentie, 1500s–1600s commentie, 1500s–1600s commenty, 1500s– commonty, 1600s comonty; Scottish pre-1700 commondtye, pre-1700 commonte, pre-1700 commonteys (plural), pre-1700 commonti, pre-1700 commontie, pre-1700 commontye, pre-1700 commounte, pre-1700 commountee, pre-1700 commountie, pre-1700 commounty, pre-1700 commountye, pre-1700 commowntie, pre-1700 comonte, pre-1700 comontie, pre-1700 comountie, pre-1700 comownties (plural), pre-1700 comunte, pre-1700 comuntie, pre-1700 1700s– commonty. N.E.D. (1891) also records a form late Middle English comentie. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: common adj., -ty suffix¹; community n. Etymology: Partly (i) < common adj. + -ty suffix¹, and partly (ii) an alteration of community n., after common adj. and common n.¹ Compare communion n. and later commonity n.Compare Old French (northern, rare) comuneté, comunteit, comonteit, Old French, Middle French (rare) communeté fellowship, community, joint use (all 13th cent.). †1. The people of a country, city, etc., as a whole; a state, nation, or community. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] commona1382 commontya1382 policya1393 communitya1398 commonweal?a1400 politic1429 commonwealth1445 well public1447 public thinga1450 public weala1470 body politica1475 weal-public1495 statea1500 politic bodyc1537 body1545 public state1546 civil-wealth1547 republic?1549 state1553 polity1555 publica1586 estate1605 corps politic1696 negara1955 negeri1958 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xxi. 15 (MED) Ne menge he þe lynage of his kynde to þe comunte of his peple. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 87 Euery kingdom or comounte dyvidid in him silf schal be destruyed. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) v. xxii. sig. nvii^v/2 Euery man is a parte of the comonte. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxl. 167 To kepe y^e commentie of Flanders in frendshyppe. 1660 T. R. Royall Subj. Warning-Piece (single sheet) ii./2 Curse the day that ever you did know Bold Oliver, I say, that traitor, Englands foe; He being a Brewers Son you liquored well your throat, the Commenty you have undone Yet now beware a Rope. †2. A particular group or fellowship of people; a religious community or brotherhood; a trade guild. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 157 Þe mene tyme Marius foundede an idel forto meove þe comounte of horsmen. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 133 (MED) Cold & moiste aier, brede crude & þerf, & leguminez..ar forbedde to hem of þe comontee of leches [?c1425 Paris þe communete of leches; L. communitate medicorum]. 1440 in W. H. Black Hist. & Antiq. Worshipful Company of Leathersellers (1871) 25 (MED) On peyne of forfeture of the seid fellys..to the use of the Comynte. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 27 (MED) As al men of a comynte berun punisching for þe defaut of two or on. †3. Ordinary people as distinguished from the aristocracy or upper classes; commoners or common people regarded as a class or group. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] folkc888 peoplea1325 frapec1330 commona1350 common peoplea1382 commonsa1382 commontya1387 communityc1400 meiniec1400 commonaltya1425 commonsa1500 vulgarsa1513 many1526 meinie1532 multitude1535 the many-headed beast (also monster)1537 number1542 ignobility1546 commonitya1550 popular1554 populace1572 popularya1578 vulgarity?1577 populacya1583 rout1589 the vulgar1590 plebs1591 mobile vulgusc1599 popularity1599 ignoble1603 the million1604 plebe1612 plebeity1614 the common filea1616 the herda1616 civils1644 commonality1649 democracy1656 menu1658 mobile1676 crowd1683 vulgusa1687 mob1691 Pimlico parliament?1774 citizenry1795 polloi1803 demos1831 many-headed1836 hoi polloi1837 the masses1837 citizenhood1843 John Q.1922 wimble-wamble1937 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 115 Þe comounte [L. plebem] of Rome. 1483 W. Caxton in tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cccxxiii^v/1 Grete oppressions and Importable charges among the comonte. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) v. vi. sig. I.j^v The nobilitie..With all the whole commontie. 1599 T. Heywood 1st Pt. King Edward IV sig. J The king wants money, & would haue some of his Comentie. 1639 W. Balcanquhall Large Declar. Tumults Scotl. 253 In case of negligence, it is Suppletive in the collective bodie, as being communicate from the Commontie to the King, Cumulative not Privative: but also in case of maladministration, to returne to the collective bodie. 1665 R. Brathwait Captive-captain 172 This County consists of two sorts; and in these two, dissorted into different opinions. The Gentry and Commonty. 4. Law (chiefly Scottish). Joint use or possession. Chiefly in in commonty: in joint use or possession; to be held or enjoyed equally by a number of people. Now historical (rare after mid 18th cent.). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > owning > [noun] > collective ownership commontya1425 communitya1475 commonness1530 commonality1680 collectivity1872 a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 5209 With hem holdyng comunte Of all her goode in charite. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 24592 (MED) I ha noo pocessioun nor nothyng in propurte, but al thyng in communyte; al propurte I ha forsake. 1578 in P. J. Anderson Charters & Writs Royal Burgh Aberdeen (1890) 339 Ordanis the spott of brunt land on the south syd of the mos of the Gardyne to ly ley in commontie. 1641 in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 106 His Majestie..gave grantit and disponit to the said brugh in commontie..all and haill the landes of Glentrase. 1850 Rep. Supreme Courts Scotl. 22 176/1 How can a third party..be allowed to say that he will show that these parties had a right, which they disclaim, and that the lands belong to them in common—aye to them alone in commonty. 1979 I. Whyte Agric. & Soc. 17th Cent. Scotl. iii. 83 Much of the permanent pasture was in commonty. 5. Scottish. Land held in common; a common (common n.¹ 3a) or piece of common land. Cf. commonty land n. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land held by community commonty1450 commonty land1537 communal land1876 1450 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis (1856) I. 143 Ye marchis off ye landis off Menmur bayth off propirtye and commontye. 1555 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 213 The baillies counsale and communite ordanis ane man to be conducit to feid and pasture thair yeild nolt in thair commonte of Glentres als sone as thai may. 1600 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1600/11/24 Diverse persones hes ryvin out, parkit, teillit, sawin and laubourit great portionis of the samin commounteis, without ony richt of propirtie competent to thame. 1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. II. iii. iii. 302 Commonty..in our law language and in charters, it frequently signifies a heath or muir. 1883 Scotsman 23 July 5/7 The commonty of Harray has all been divided between the heritors. 1939 F. Drake-Carnell It's Old Sc. Custom 66 If any nobleman..or others, having lands lying contiguous or adjacent to the said Commonty, shall find themselves leized or prejudiced in any sort by this day's marching, they are hereby required to state their objections. 2014 Courier (Dundee) 24 Dec. (Perth & Perthshire ed.) 7/2 His talk, entitled Down by the Kirkgate Shore, offered an insight into its time as a ‘commonty’, where local people had grazing rights for their animals. 6. Scots Law. The right to use common land; right of common. Frequently in right of commonty. Cf. commonage n. 1a, common n.¹ 4. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > tenure and rights > [noun] > rights pannage1392 commonc1405 stint1437 agistmenta1450 intercommon1449 commonty1466 foggage1471 communitya1475 gist1493 commoning?a1509 arrentationc1540 wether gang1561 browsage1570 pasturage1572 feed1575 intercommoner1581 frankfold1609 broouage1610 fellow commoner1612 horsegate1619 frankfoldage1628 shack1629 tatha1641 retropannage1679 levancy and couchancya1691 commonance1701 stinter1701 horse-lease1721 stray1736 goose-gate1739 commonage1792 twinter1846 couchance1886 levance1886 sheep-stray1891 stintholder1894 1466 in J. B. Paul Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1882) II. 215/1 Jhonne..sall brouke comoun pastour and fewell..in oure south mure of commonti. 1541 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1540/12/103 With..commounty in the saidis muris, myris and moss. 1611 in C. C. Harvey Cal. Writs Yester House (1930) 307 Teilling and outryveing the land on the west syde of the westmure of Duncanlaw to the which we pretended commonty. a1713 J. Stewart Dirleton's Doubts (1715) 31 As to a Commonty within the Property of other Superiors, the Clause cum comuni Pastura..will not be a Ground of Prescription. 1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 66 660 The agricultural labourer..had, moreover, rights of pasturage and commonty..which have long ago disappeared. 1994 Scotsman (Nexis) 14 Sept. The council's secretary..said locals found it hard to believe an individual could acquire the title to land everyone knew belonged to all the village ‘under right of commonty’. †7. Scottish. The land or district lying round a city, town, etc., and under its jurisdiction; territory. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ c1600 in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 54 Gif ane burges be takin without the burgh for ony debt or trespas, his nichtbouris sall pas and repledge him upon thair awin expensis, gif he wes takin within the commountie of the burgh. †8. A comedy. Obsolete.An isolated use, representing a malapropism. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. ii. 133 It is not a Comontie, a Christmas gambold, or a tumbling tricke? Compounds commonty land n. Scottish now historical land held in common; a common (common n.¹ 3a) or piece of common land; = sense 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land held by community commonty1450 commonty land1537 communal land1876 1537 in J. Stuart Rec. Monastery Kinloss (1872) 145 The said Gilbert his heirs and tennents sal cast fewell at their pleasure ony part of the said hill of ffindon outwith the said Patrick's property and outwith the said Gilbert and his tennents Commonty landis and sicklike in the commond mure or ony other place within the said Barony. 1886 Aberdeen Jrnl. 13 Aug. 4/6 It was rumoured..that Francis Harper, along with some others, intended shooting over parts of Genavon, Glencat, and the forest of Birse, which they assert is Commonty land. 2012 R. Dodgshon in T. M. Devine & J. Wormald Oxf. Handbk. Mod. Sc. Hist. vi. 142 Smallholdings..were established on extensive areas of marginal waste ground, including many on the privatized blocks of former commonty land created by mid-eighteenth century divisions. † commonty fire Obsolete (at Cambridge University) (perhaps) a fire provided at the common expense of the fellows of a college; a social meeting around such a fire.Only recorded in the writings of G. Harvey. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > a kind of fire > other fires moorburn1424 coal firea1450 commonty fire1573 moor-burning1610 stubble-firea1618 wheel-fire1662 night-fire1687 waterball1696 chip fire1795 neal-fire1813 bratchel1815 forge-fire1855 log-fire1878 electrical fire1900 slash fire1949 dumpster fire1957 chip pan fire1960 chip fire1985 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 4 After dinner and supper, at commenti fiers..I continuid as long as ani, and was as fellowli as the best. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 5 At a commenti fier in M. Jacksuns chamber this last year. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1382
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