commoning

Verb

common (third-person singular simple present commons, present participle commoning, simple past and past participle commoned)

1. (obsolete) To communicate (something).
   • Then entred Satan into Judas, whose syr name was iscariot (which was of the nombre off the twelve) and he went his waye, and commened with the hye prestes and officers, how he wolde betraye hym vnto them.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke

   Synonyms:

   articulate, convey, express, communicate, share, make known, outspeak, portray, put, utter

2. (obsolete) To converse, talk.
   • So long as Guyon with her commoned, / Vnto the ground she cast her modest eye […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   chat, discourse, treat, confab, confabulate, conversate, converse, convo, jaw, parley

3. (obsolete) To have sex.

   Synonyms:

   company, know, shag, approach, cohabit, copulate, couple, engage in sex, exchange flesh, have intimate relations

4. (obsolete) To participate.

   Synonyms:

   join in, take part

5. (obsolete) To have a joint right with others in common ground.
6. (obsolete) To board together; to eat at a table in common.

   Synonyms:

   fadge, mess

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