Common-place

Quick meaning: Common-place is an adjective meaning Archaic form of commonplace.

Meaning

Archaic form of commonplace.

Example Sentences

While your Highneſs is forming your ſelf for a Throne, conſider the Laws as ſo many Common-Places in your Study of the Science of Government.

And therefore, whatever in my ſmall Reading, occurs, concerning this our Fellow-Creature, I do never fail to ſet it down, by way of Common-place; […]

Common-places do properly contain nothing but general advice that remembers thoſe who conſult them of all the faces by which a ſubject may be conſidered; […]

It is odd how easily the common-places of morality or of sentiment glide off in conversation. Well, they are “exceedingly helpful,” and so Lord Avonleigh found them.

Word Forms

• common-places
• common-placing
• common-placed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include such and such, apodeixis, self-same, extra-ordinary, habitualisation, etcetera.

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