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Such actions as the common good
requireth.

Hooker.

The common enemy of man.

Shak.

3. Often met with; usual; frequent;
customary.

Grief more than common grief.

Shak.

4. Not distinguished or exceptional;
inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory
sense.

The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common
life.

W. Irving.

This fact was infamous

And ill beseeming any common man,

Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.

Shak.

Above the vulgar flight of common
souls.

A. Murphy.

5. Profane; polluted. [Obs.]

What God hath cleansed, that call not thou
common.

Acts x. 15.

6. Given to habits of lewdness;
prostitute.

A dame who herself was common.

L'Estrange.

Common bar (Law) Same as Blank
bar, under Blank. -- Common
barrator (Law), one who makes a business of
instigating litigation.


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