commonty
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun Community.
- noun The commonalty; the common people.
- noun In Scots law, a piece of land belonging to two or more common proprietors, and in general burdened with sundry inferior rights of servitude, such as feal and divot, etc.; a common.
Examples
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Every year on Games Day I take pictures of the specimen conifers we have planted down the commonty, with associated grandchildren.
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“Down the commonty” is part of the mysterious family vocabulary which incomers (such as the people our children marry) find so difficult at first, although all have mastered it by now.
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The congregation, which belonged to the body who seceded from the Established Church a hundred and fifty years ago, had split, and as the New Lights (now the U. P.'s) were in the majority, the Old Lights, with the minister at their head, had to retire to the commonty (or common) and hold service in the open air until they had saved up money for a church.
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She got her death on the commonty one day of sudden rain, when she had run out to bring in her washing, for the terrible cold she woke with next morning carried her off very quickly.
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On the way down the commonty, Leeby had the honour of being twice addressed as Miss McQumpha, but her father was Hendry to all, which shows that we make our social position for ourselves.
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The lovers that met on the commonty in the gloaming are gone, but there are other lovers to take their place, and still the commonty is here.
Note
The word 'commonty' comes ultimately from a Latin word meaning 'society'.
