† commoning, vbl. n. Obs.
(ˈkɒmənɪŋ)
[f. common v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb common.
1. Sharing or participating, communion.
| c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 385 Þe comounynge of þe comon goodis..in begynnynge of Cristis Churche. 1382 ― 1 Cor. x. 16 The comenynge of Cristis blood. |
2. Common saying. (
Cf. common v. 2 b.)
| 1494 Fabyan vi. cxlix. 135 He was buryed at the Abbey of Gyruy: albe it y⊇ comynyng is, that he restith nowe with Saynt Cutbert of Durham. |
3. Intercourse, converse, conference.
| c 1340 Hampole Prose Tr. 16 Comonynge and byhaldynge of aungells and gastely creaturs. 1488 Caxton Chast. Goddes Chyld. 31 Uneth ony man shall ouercome hem in commyning ne dysputacion. 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 4 The inhabitants..desirit Gathelus to ane commoning. 1547 Homilies i. Swearing (1859) 77 In eating, drinking, playing, commoning, and reasoning. |
4. Communion, fellowship (
= communing vbl. n. c);
concr. a community, a fellowship.
| c 1340 Cursor M. 23115 (Trin.) Fro comynynge of cristen men Þo careful shul be eþ to ken. 1400 Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. 3 The Sexte artycle es þat Haly Kirke..es comonynge and felawrede of all cristene folke. |
5. Agreement, concord.
rare.
| c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 395 Þer is no comynynge ne consent to Crist and to Belial. |
6. The Communion, the Eucharist;
= communing vbl. n. d.
| 1382 [see 1]. 1482 Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 27 Had resceyuid the holy comyning of cristen men. |
7. Exercise of common rights over pasture, etc.
| 1549 Act 3 & 4 Edw. VI, c. 3 §2 Foreign Tenants have no greater Right of Commoning in the Wood..of any Lord, than the proper Tenants. 1649 W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. Ded., Unlimited Commons, or Commoning without stint, upon any Heath, Moor, Forrest, or other Common. 1694 Lond. Gaz. No. 2977/4 To be Lett a Farm..with the advantage of Commoning. 1764 Harmer Observ. ii. 49 Nor have they any notion of our rights of commoning. |
| attrib. 1704 Waterbury (Conn.) Town Rec. 12 Dec., No man shall..baight cattell after y⊇ first of Aprill till commoning time. |
b. concr. Land subject to common-rights; common land.
| 1634 Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 149 Of commoning also, which yields ferron and gorse..there is about 800 acres. 1707 Lond. Gaz. No. 4354/4 The Manor of Somerford..with Two Water Corn-Mills..very good Commoning. |
8. Eating at a common table; boarding.
| 1684 Charnock Attrib. God (1834) I. 186 Nothing will separate prodigal man from commoning with swine..but an empty trough. |