Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
common . - noun An obsolete form of
cumin .
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Examples
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YE shall now wit that there be twelue maner of impedymentes whiche cause a man to take no fysshe, without other comyn that may casually hap.
Philocrites: It's Friday: Time for Middle English cooking! 2005
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Kepe well the comyn rule as the holy place hath vsed.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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¶ To me by you grau {n} ted by your comyn se {n} tece
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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Composyt þou schalt first sowne þe articul & aft {ur} þe digit, as þ {o} u seyst by þe comyn {e} speche, Sex & twenty & nouȝt twenty & sex.
The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902
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For after a fysshe is taken in a mannys gynne yf the gynne be layed in the comyn waters: or elles in suche waters as he hireth, it is his owne propre goodes.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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London citee, and no more comyn withinne the walles of the citee, but they comen in with there raye hodees on there hedes upon certeyn peyne.
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'To make Ypocrasse for lords with gynger, synamon, and graynes sugour, and turefoll: and for comyn pepull gynger canell, longe peper, and claryffyed hony.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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Schullyn be scaldyd and sodyn wyth porke and grynd pepyr and comyn bred and ale and temper it wyth the selve broth and boyle and colowre it wyth safroun and salt it and messe it forthe.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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Tak checonys and schald hem and seth hem and grvnd gyngen 'other pepyr and comyn and temper it up wyth god mylk and do the checonys theryn and boyle hem and serve yt forthe.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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_ Thys is of my faythe a godely cõtemplacyõ, but I maruayll greatly, seyng you ar thus mynded, that ye neuer dyd vysyte saynt Patryckes purgatory in Yerlande, of the | | whiche the comyn people boost many wonderouse thynges, whiche seme to me not lyke to be true.
The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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