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intercommon

intercommon verb: to share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table.

Verb

intercommon (third-person singular simple present intercommons, present participle intercommoning, simple past and past participle intercommoned)

  1. (obsolete) To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table.
    • the spirits of the wine do prey upon the roscid juice of the body , and inter-common with the spirits of the body , and so deceive and rob them of their nourishment1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William...
  2. (UK, obsolete) To graze cattle indiscriminately in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc.
    • They openly declared great hatred against all gentlemen, whom they maliciously accused of covetousness, pride, extortion, and oppression, practised against their tenants and the common people, and having thoroughly imbibed the wicked notions of the ancient levellers, they begin to put in execution...1736, Francis Blomefield, History of Norfolk, volume 3 Chapter 25

Forms of intercommon

third-person singular presentintercommons
present participleintercommoning
past participleintercommoned
pastintercommoned

Origin of intercommon

From Old French entrecommuner. See inter- and common.

Words formed from intercommon

Questions about intercommon

What does intercommon mean?
Intercommon means to share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table.
What part of speech is intercommon?
Intercommon is a verb.
What is the past tense of intercommon?
The past tense of intercommon is intercommoned.

Words near intercommon in the dictionary

  1. intercomming
  2. intercommission
  3. intercommissural
  4. intercommisural
  5. intercommodity
  6. intercommon
  7. intercommonable
  8. intercommonage
  9. intercommoned
  10. intercommoner
  11. intercommoners

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