intercommoning
intercommoning is the present participle and gerund of intercommon.
Meaning of intercommon
Verb
intercommon (third-person singular simple present intercommons, present participle intercommoning, simple past and past participle intercommoned)
- 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...
- 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
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- Intercommoning is the present participle and gerund of intercommon.
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