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1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale 73 I am suer T[indale] is not so farre besydis his comon sencis as to saye the dead bodye hereth cristis voyce.

1558 C. Goodman How Superior Powers v. 53 How farre ye haue bene led besydes your commun senses and the manifest worde of God.

1671 Bp. S. Parker Def. Eccl. Politie i. 37 As if they conspired to force all the World out of their common senses.

1692 G. Hickes Vindic. Princ. Dr. Sherlock 21 Or else Henry and his whole Council were out of their Wits and common Senses not to perceive it.

1738 S. Berington Great Duties Life iii. 265 If they should endeavour to persuade us out of our common Senses.

1779 Honest Sentiments Eng. Officer on Army Great Brit. iii. i. 36 For want of a plain guide, who is in his common senses, to direct him.

1785 T. Northey Gen. Dir. use Northey’s Compositions 6 If rats be in their common senses they will seldom take any thing that will destroy them.

1787 G. Gregory tr. R. Lowth Lect. Sacred Poetry Hebrews I. xvii. 366 Aristotle expresses it μανικον (insane), Plato εκϕρονα (out of their common senses).

1831 J. J. Halls Pearce's Life & Adventures II. ix. 294 To which she answered as when in her common senses.

1889 Quiver 24 209 Fitter for a madman than for one in his common senses.