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COMMUNE, v.i.

1. To converse; to talk together familiarly; to impart sentiments mutually, in private or familiar discourse; followed by with before the person.

And there will I meet and commune with thee. Ex. 25.

2. To have intercourse in contemplation or meditation.

Commune with your own heart or your bed. Ps. 4.

3. To partake of the sacrament or Lords supper; to receive the communion; a common use of the word in America, as it is in the Welsh.

COMMUNE, n. A small territorial district in France--one of the subordinate divisions of the country introduced in the late revolution.

Communibus annis, one year with another; on an average.

Communibus locis, one place with another; on a medium.


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COMMUNE, v.i.

1. To converse; to talk together familiarly; to impart sentiments mutually, in private or familiar discourse; followed by with before the person.

And there will I meet and commune with thee. Ex. 25.

2. To have intercourse in contemplation or meditation.

Commune with your own heart or your bed. Ps. 4.

3. To partake of the sacrament or Lords supper; to receive the communion; a common use of the word in America, as it is in the Welsh.

COMMUNE, n. A small territorial district in France--one of the subordinate divisions of the country introduced in the late revolution.

Communibus annis, one year with another; on an average.

Communibus locis, one place with another; on a medium.

COM'MUNE, n.

A small territorial district in France – one of the subordinate divisions of the country introduced in the late revolution. Communibus annis, one year with another; on an average. Communibus locis, one place with another; on a medium.


COM-MUNE', v.i. [Fr. communier; W. cymunaw; Arm. communya. The Welsh word is by Owen considered as a compound of cy, a prefix equivalent to co and con in Latin, and ymun; ym, noting identity, and unaw, to unite. If the word is formed from cy or cum and unus, it is radically different from common. But the Latin communico accords with this word, and with common.]

  1. To converse; to talk together familiarly; to impart sentiments mutually, in private or familiar discourse; followed by with before the person. And there will I meet and commune with thee. – Ex. xxv.
  2. To have intercourse in contemplation or meditation. Commune with your own heart on your bed. Ps. iv.
  3. To partake of the sacrament or Lord's supper; to receive the communion; a common use of the word in America, as it is in the Welsh.

Com*mune"
  1. To converse together with sympathy and confidence] to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.

    I would commune with you of such things
    That want no ear but yours.
    Shak.

  2. Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends.

    For days of happy commune dead.
    Tennyson.

  3. The commonalty; the common people.

    [Obs.] Chaucer.

    In this struggle -- to use the technical words of the time -- of the "commune", the general mass of the inhabitants, against the "prudhommes" or "wiser" few.
    J. R. Green.

  4. To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper.

    To commune under both kinds.
    Bp. Burnet.

    To commune with one's self or one's heart, to think; to reflect; to meditate.

  5. A small territorial district in France under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government, of such a district. See Arrondissement.
  6. Absolute municipal self- government.

    The Commune of Paris, or The Commune (a) The government established in Paris (1792-94) by a usurpation of supreme power on the part of representatives chosen by the communes; the period of its continuance is known as the "Reign of Terror." (b) The revolutionary government, modeled on the commune of 1792, which the communists, so called, attempted to establish in 1871.

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Commune

COMMUNE, verb intransitive

1. To converse; to talk together familiarly; to impart sentiments mutually, in private or familiar discourse; followed by with before the person.

And there will I meet and commune with thee. Exodus 25:22.

2. To have intercourse in contemplation or meditation.

COMMUNE with your own heart or your bed. Psalms 4:4.

3. To partake of the sacrament or Lords supper; to receive the communion; a common use of the word in America, as it is in the Welsh.

COMMUNE, noun A small territorial district in France--one of the subordinate divisions of the country introduced in the late revolution.

Communibus annis, one year with another; on an average.

Communibus locis, one place with another; on a medium.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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MODE, n. [L. modus, metior. The primary sense of mode is measure hence form. Measure is from extending, the extent, hence a limit, and hence the derivative sense of restraining. See Meet and Measure.]

1. Manner of existing or being; manner; method; form; fashion; custom; way; as the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing; modes of receiving or entertaining company.

The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may be easily found.

It is applicable to particular acts, or to a series of acts, or to the common usage of a city of nation. One man has a particular mode of walking; another has a singular mode of dressing his hair. We find it necessary to conform in some measure to the usual modes of dress.

2. Gradation; degree.

What modes of sight between each wide extreme!

3. State; quality.

4. In metaphysics, the dependence or affection of a substance. Such complex ideas as contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies or affections of substances, Locke calls modes. Of these he makes two kinds; simple modes, which are only variations or different combinations of the same idea, as a dozen, which consists of so many units added together; and mixed modes, which are compounded of simple ideas of several kinds, as beauty, which is compounded of color and figure.

A mode is that which cannot subsist in and of itself, but is esteemed as belonging to and subsisting by the help of some substance, which for that reason is called its subject.

5. In music, a regular disposition of the air and accompaniments relative to certain principal sounds, on which a piece of music is formed, and which are called the essential sounds of the mode.

6. In grammar, a particular manner of conjugating verbs to express manner of action or being, as affirmation, command, condition and the like; usually and not very properly written mood. Mood is a word of different signification. [See Mood.]

7. A kind of silk.

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