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ˈcommonˌplacer [f. commonplace v. + -er1.] One who or that which commonplaces; †a. a commonplace-book; b. a person who keeps one.
a1631Donne Serm. lv. 557 Such ragges and fragments of those Fathers as were patcht together in their Decretats and Decretals and other such Commonplacers. 1643Milton Divorce Introd. (1851) 10 The narrow intellectuals of quotationists and common placers. 1830Fraser's Mag. ii. 184 A common-placer of his jests. |