commonplacing

Verb

commonplace (third-person singular simple present commonplaces, present participle commonplacing, simple past and past participle commonplaced)

1. (transitive) To make a commonplace book.
2. (transitive) To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
   • I do not apprehend any difficulty in collecting and commonplacing an universal history from the […]historians.1711, Henry Felton, Dissertation on Reading the Classics
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
   • And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.1910, Elinor Glyn, chapter 4, in His Hour

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