commonplacen.²adj.

Brit.

/ˈkɒmənpleɪs/, U.S.

/ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs/

Forms: see common adj. and adv. and place n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: common adj., place n.¹

Etymology: < common adj. + place n.¹, after classical Latin locus communis, itself after Hellenistic Greek κοινὸς τόπος (in ancient Greek simply τόπος (Aristotle: see topic adj.)), explained by Cicero ( Inv. 2. 14. 47 et seq.) as a general theme or argument applicable to many particular cases. Later, collections of such general topics were called loci communes (frequently from the early 16th cent. in book titles).Compare the following earlier example of the Latin phrase in an English context in sense A. 1a:1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xiv. sig. Hi Hauyng almoste all the places, whereof they shall fetche their raisons, called of Oratours loci communes.Stress pattern. A stress pattern with main stress on the second element and secondary stress on the first syllable of the first element is given in the 19th-cent. pronouncing dictionaries of Walker and Smart.

A. n.²

a. A passage of text considered to be generally relevant or appropriate, which may serve as the basis for a discourse or discussion; a topic suitable to the purpose of a rhetorician. historical after 17th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [noun] > passage > used as basis for argument

commonplace?1531

locus communis1531

?1531 R. Barnes Supplic. Kinge Henrye VIII f. i^v The comen places which he disputeth are these... The first is, that Alonlye faith iustefyeth before god... The seconde, what the church is [etc.].

1692 S. Patrick Answer to Touchstone of Reformed Gospel 161 Why, he brings the common place, XV. Luke 10. which saith there is joy in their presence, that is, in heaven (as it is, v. 7.) over one sinner that repenteth.

a1758 J. Ward Syst. Oratory (1759) I. iv. 51 The contrivance of common places, which Cicero calls the seats or heads of arguments, and by a Greek name topics.

1972 H. M. Solomon Public Welfare, Sci., & Propaganda in 17th Cent. iii. 82 These questions..were generally discussed through the use of ‘common places’. The speaker attacked the subject from all sides and with all of his rhetorical skills—simile, metaphor, quotations, amplification.

2015 L. Pernot Epideictic Rhetoric ii. 29 The ancient system of epideictic offered lists of commonplaces to be used for each sort of praised object as well as lists of different types of speeches for different occasions, aesthetic-style categories, and figures.

†b. The theme or topic of a sermon or similar discourse. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > materials of topic > [noun] > of discourse

matterc1330

lessona1375

contenu1477

content1509

thema1531

commonplace1549

subject matter1598

text1608

clue1656

1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 5th Serm. sig. Pii Thys commune place..was verye well handeled the laste Sondaye.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) I. 260 The fear of God..was a pregnant and a plentiful common place for him to preach upon.

1665 R. Johnson Scholars Guide 29 Upon any common place, as Vertue, Learning, Love, War, &c. bethink a Sentence consisting of three or four words, for each word write down what Synonyma's you know.

†c. A sermon or similar discourse delivered on a set theme or topic. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > treatise or dissertation > [noun] > thesis

commonplace1595

thesea1600

law-act1645

thesis1653

thema1888

1595 S. Ward Diary 13 June in M. M. Knappen Two Elizabethan Puritan Diaries (1933) 107 My wandering thoughtes at the common place. Remember alwayes att the hearing of God word to be appliing the things delivered alwayes to thy self.

1665 T. H. Exact Surv. Affaires Netherlands 168 After they have performed their Sermon and Common-place.

a1714 F. Brokesby Life H. Dodwell (1715) 19 His Common Places, that is, Exercises like Sermons, which were delivered in the College Chappel, shew him to be a good Scholar.

1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 16 A common place in favour of slavery and tyranny delivered to a popular assembly, would indeed be a bold defiance to all the principles of rhetoric.

a. Any of a collection of notable passages, extracts, etc., compiled to form the contents of a book, typically divided into topics or themes; (in early use also) any of the topics into which such contents are divided. Also: an interesting or notable passage, quotation, etc., copied for personal reference into a book or scrapbook intended for this purpose. Frequently in book of commonplaces n., commonplace book n.figurative in quot. 1752.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > [noun]

saw9..

quideOE

yedOE

wordOE

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?1531 J. Frith tr. P. Hamilton Paitrikes Places f. 2 A litle treatise..entreateth exactelye of certeyne comen places.

1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places Ep. Ded. sig. Aiii^v I haue..employed my diligence in collecting these common places.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 211 When all a Student knows of what he reads Is not in's own, but under general Heads Of Common-places.

1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit i, in Tale of Tub 287 Whatever in my small Reading occurs, concerning this our Fellow Creature [i.e. Ass], I do never fail to set it down, by way of Common-place.

1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 206. ⁋15 The only common places of his memory are his meals; and if you ask him at what time an event happened, he considers whether he heard it after a dinner of turbot or venison.

1843 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 5 Aug. 228/3 I rested not till I had inserted an ‘answer’..which everybody will acknowledge was well calculated for insertion in a book devoted to commonplaces.

2017 @KyriosityTweets 31 July in twitter.com (accessed 27 Oct. 2020) Don't just write commonplaces in a book; glue the quotes into a scrapbook.

b. A book consisting of a collection of commonplaces (sense A. 2a); = commonplace book n. rare after the 18th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > written record > album or commonplace book > [noun]

book of commonplaces1562

adversaria1571

commonplace book1572

stem-book1592

commonplace1607

album1612

commonplacera1631

topic folio1644

place-booka1659

pocketbook1660

blank book1713

scrap-book1825

guard book1839

press book1897

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes Ep. Ded. sig. A5^v Gesner relateth euery mans opinion (like a common place or Dictionary).

1666 G. Torriano (title) Piazza universale di proverbi Italiani. Or, a common place of Italian proverbs and proverbial phrases.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. ix. 290 The famous Story of Alexander and Clytus..entered in my Common-Place under Title Drunkenness.

1824 W. H. Prescott Let. 24 Jan. in G. Ticknor Life W. H. Prescott (1863) vi. 64 You ask me..if I chose to write it, why I did not put it in my Commonplace.

2020 @Brian_Sauve 14 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 16 Oct. 2020) This is in my commonplace from yesterday: ‘It's the person who demands respect the loudest who often deserves it the least’.

a. A statement, opinion, etc., that is generally accepted or assumed to be true; an everyday saying; a trite saying, a platitude, a truism. Also: a common or stock topic or subject of remark.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > self-evident truth, axiom > [noun] > trite saying, commonplace

commonplace1560

household word1574

scholium1830

commonplaceism1831

banality1861

bromide1906

stock response1925

tag-phrase1933

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > dullness > use of platitudes > a platitude

commonplace1560

platitude1815

commonplaceism1831

goodyism1883

1560 J. Knox et al. Buke Discipline in J. Knox Wks. (1848) II. 243 He must bind him self to his text, that he enter not in digressioun in explanyng commoun places.

1597 F. Bacon Of Coulers Good & Euill (Arb.) No. 10. 153 The common place of extolling the beginning of euery thing: Dimidium qui bene cœpit habet.

1638 A. Cowley Loves Riddle iv. sig. E2 Her skin like falling snow, her eyes like starres, Her cheekes like roses (which are common places Of all your lovers praises).

1741 W. Guthrie tr. Cicero Orations I. 15 Now that it [sc. this Appian Name] is discoloured with the Blood of a Robber and a Murderer, it is become a Common-Place of Conversation.

1856 N. Amer. Rev. July 264 That a child of New England should be the principal contemporary authority in this history, is a fresh illustration of the commonplace that ‘truth is stranger than fiction’.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 140 The paradoxes of one age often become the commonplaces of the next.

1916 J. Dewey Democracy & Educ. (1925) iv. 60 It is a commonplace to say that education should not cease when one leaves school.

1989 B. Spackman Decadent Genealogies ii. 63 Baudelaire argues against the commonplace that ‘la nature embellit la beaute’ (‘nature beautifies beauty’).

2010 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 31 July 30 One of the most vehement proofs of the commonplace that video games are best kept on PlayStations.

†b. A person who is a common topic of comment or conversation. Obsolete.

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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > topic of or subject for conversation or gossip > person discussed

commonplacea1610

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object of ridicule > talked about, gazed or pointed at

gazing stock1535

pointing-stock1585

pointing mark1592

commonplacea1610

storya1616

outspeckle1802

a1610 J. Healey tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) xxix. 34 Prepare thy selfe to bee..the common-place of the multitude of mockers [Gk. ὡς καταμωκησομένων σου πολλῶν].

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 230 The Papists were the most Popular Common-place, and the Butt against whom all the Arrows were directed.

c. Commonplace discourse, speech, or writing; triviality. Now rare.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usualness > that which is commonplace > collectively

commonplace1732

day-to-day1965

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. iv. ii. 208 The Being of a God is a Subject upon which there has been a world of Common-place.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. lv. 356 Common subjects afford only commonplace.

1887 L. H. Bagg Ten Thousand Miles on Bicycle xxxvi. 642 I call this an interesting and valuable paper, in spite of all..the drivel and commonplace which it prints for ‘filling’.

1949 New Statesman 24 Sept. 336/2 Half a chapter of commonplace about Samarkand and Bokara..seem a poor reward for toiling with the author across dreary leagues of Asian railway.

d. An ordinary or common object, action, or occurrence; something trite.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usualness > that which is commonplace

staleness1617

hack1710

commonplace1802

quotidian1902

banalization1968

1802 W. Wordsworth To Daisy (2nd poem) 5 Thou unassuming Common-place Of Nature, with that homely face.

1850 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. (ed. 2) I. 83 A man whose eyes are in his head..observes commonplaces, and thinks of them.

1936 N.Y. Woman 23 Sept. 19/2 Their presence in the Royal Box at the opera in Covent Garden has become a commonplace.

1967 G. Steiner Lang. & Silence 22 Mr. Eliot's essay on Dante is a commonplace in literary education.

2015 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Sept. 16/1 The Western shirt, with a curve to the yoke and a mother-of-pearl personality to the pockets, became a cowboy commonplace.

†4. Ordinariness, commonplaceness. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > quality of being commonplace or undistinguished

ordinarinessa1617

vulgarity1646

greyness1663

commonness1779

commonplaceness1808

commonplace1842

commonplaceism1851

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > state or quality of being trite or banal

tameness1530

triteness1727

triticalness1727

tritism1785

commonplaceness1808

prosiness1814

triticism1824

triticality1835

commonplace1842

commonplaceism1851

prosaicness1852

prosaism1855

hackneydom1867

prosaicalness1876

banality1878

mundanity1959

squareness1961

1842 T. Martin My Namesake in Fraser's Mag. Dec. There is no getting over the commonplace of the cognomen.

1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. ii. 63 Where..is the note of provinciality in Addison? I answer, in the commonplace of his ideas.

5. With the. Common or ordinary things as a class.

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1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. iv. 104 A frontless, arrogant, decorous slip of the common-place.

1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow I. i. 1 The house..was a very type and embodiment of the commonplace.

1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 36 To them I owe a capacity for relishing the everyday and recognising the attractions in the commonplace.

2006 N.Y. Mag. 17 Apr. 88/3 Keller's genius is in taking the commonplace—the turkey sandwich, the ham and cheese, the PB&J—and elevating it to the pinnacle of its form.

B. adj.

1. That is ordinary or common; usual.In quot. 1616 punning on an attributive use of sense A. 1a, with allusion to Aristotle's influence on the term (see note at etymology).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > commonplace

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trite1548

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protrite1604

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tritical1709

prosaic1729

tritish1779

hack1821

rum-ti-tum1832

unspecial1838

banal1840

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prosy1849

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > of no special quality > commonplace

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bread-and-buttery1893

timeworn1901

day-to-day1919

vanilla1972

standard1977

1616 B. Jonson Epicœne ii. iii, in Wks. I. 543 There's Aristotle, a mere common place -fellow.

1648 Mercurius Britanicus No. 10. 78 We were so accustomed to these common-place pieces of knavery, that we can smell them at any distance.

1794 Malecontent 3 You seem to recur to the names of Mr. Burke, and Mr. Reeves, more frequently than to any others; as if they were the common-place topics of slander.

1908 E. M. Forster Room with View 109 He had known Lucy for several years, but only as a commonplace girl who happened to be musical.

1975 E. Dunlop Robinsheugh (1987) x. 82 What she wanted most in the world was a bit of friendly, commonplace chatter. The silences in this house could be so unnerving.

2012 D. Wilson Mary Ann Cotton (2013) iii. 94 Murder through using white arsenic became so commonplace that people joked about white powdering their enemies.

2. depreciative. Not interesting or original; trite.

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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > dull through repetition

trite1548

beaten1587

threadbare1598

repetitious1673

hackneyed1747

monotonous1780

commonplace1801

thread-worn1888

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > trite or banal

quotidian1430

trite1548

protrite1604

obvious1617

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commonplace1801

prosy1837

banal1840

mundane1850

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bromidic1906

corn-fed1929

corn-ball1970

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > dull > stale or mechanical

vinnied1563

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seta1616

stock1738

hackneyed1747

commonplace1801

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cliché-ridden1920

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1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 138 The medal has been given to the most wretched, tame, common-place performance, you ever saw.

1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 6/3 ‘Has life been that hard for you, Claire?’ ‘Oh, just monotonous and commonplace.’ Then in a little fierce burst of pent-up resentment, ‘Yes—it's been that hard! I do believe there's nothing worse than the dull, perpetual routine of housework.’

2009 Observer (Nexis) 31 May 15 Podeswa's confusing, commonplace film lumbers along with a painful sincerity.

Phrases

book of commonplaces n. a book consisting of a collection of commonplaces (senses A. 1a, A. 2a); a book or scrapbook into which interesting quotations, extracts, etc., are copied for personal reference; = commonplace book n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > written record > album or commonplace book > [noun]

book of commonplaces1562

adversaria1571

commonplace book1572

stem-book1592

commonplace1607

album1612

commonplacera1631

topic folio1644

place-booka1659

pocketbook1660

blank book1713

scrap-book1825

guard book1839

press book1897

1562 T. Norton in tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (new ed.) Transl. Pref. sig. A.i^v Many great learned men haue written bokes of common places of our religion, as Melanchton, Sarcerius, and other.

1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme ii. vi. 66 The Theatre of the world is an excercise of Mans wit, not a lazy Polyanthea or book of Common places.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 22. ⁋6 Having by me, in my Book of Common Places, enough to enable me to finish a very sad one [sc. Tragedy] by the Fifth of next month.

1790 Mem. Literary & Philos. Soc. Manch. 4 55 The Anatomy of Melancholy..is so crouded with quotations, that the reader is apt to mistake it for a book of commonplaces.

1893 Birmingham Daily Post 27 Oct. 7/6 The book is not..a mere tyro's book of commonplaces.

1956 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 71 484 I draw these quotations from a book of commonplaces.

2006 H. Jacobson Kalooki Nights iii. 68 The reddest of red threads..looped limply in faded pink, like pressed roses found in a spinster's book of commonplaces.

Compounds

† commonplace man n. Obsolete (originally) a person who writes or discourses on commonplaces (sense A. 1a); (later) a person who utters commonplaces or trite sayings.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > self-evident truth, axiom > [noun] > trite saying, commonplace > user of

commonplace man1627

commonplacer1731

hackneyer1779

1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (ii. 17) 216 Iustice..whereto also Popish common-place-men referre mercy and the workes thereof as to their head.

1692 J. Norris Cursory Refl. Ess. Human Understanding 41 in Christian Blessedness (ed. 2) I hate your Common-place men of all the Writers in the World.

1826 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 84/2 The exhausted common-placemen, and the afflicted fool.

† commonplace talker n. Obsolete (originally) a person who discourses on commonplaces (sense A. 1a); (later) a person who utters commonplaces or trite sayings.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > dullness > one who

commonplace talker1711

proser1769

prosaist1831

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 11. ⁋1 I found her accompanied with one Person, only, a Common-place talker, who..turning to Arietta, pursued his Discourse, which I found was upon the old Topick, of Constancy in Love.

1843 Era 15 Jan. 4/4 Some common-place talkers..would fain speak of nothing but the clever hands in which the direction of public affairs is placed.

?1881 How to shine in Soc. 62 A commonplace talker is a decided bore of society, and a most wearisome one too.

Derivatives

† commonplacish adj. Obsolete rare somewhat ordinary or commonplace.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > commonplace

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trite1548

beaten1587

trivial1589

threadbare1598

protrite1604

prose1606

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tritical1709

prosaic1729

tritish1779

hack1821

rum-ti-tum1832

unspecial1838

banal1840

commonplacish1847

prosy1849

inventionless1887

thread-worn1888

1847 J. B. Kington Battle of Nibley Green 303 The volume contained Chansons Diverses, with the music: the words, divested of a certain warmth and a little of the bacchanalian fervour, but common-placeish; the airs, some of them, pretty.

1876 Tinsley's Mag. 19 599 An amiable, pretty, commonplacish girl.

† commonplace-wise adv. Obsolete in the manner of a commonplace (in various senses).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > written record > album or commonplace book > [adverb] > in manner of commonplace book

commonplace-wise1584

1584 T. Cartwright Let. 23 Mar. in A. Peel & L. H. Carlson Cartwrightiana (1951) iii. 113 Some labour the knowledge of the Word by interpretations of it, other generally by Commentary Commonplace wise.

1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes ii. 366 [He] that collected, common-place-wise, out of S. Chrysostomes Works, those passages.

1628 J. Hume Jewes Deliv. vii. 108 I purpose not to discourse of Prayer common-place-wise.

a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) II. 30 The Emperor..was at the pains..to dispose under several heads, common-place-wise, whatever he was most desirous to understand.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

commonplacev.

Brit.

/ˈkɒmənpleɪs/, U.S.

/ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: commonplace n.²; commonplace adj.

Etymology: Partly < commonplace n.², and partly < commonplace adj.

†1.

a. intransitive. To deliver an address or discourse based on a commonplace (commonplace n.² 1a). Obsolete (historical and rare in later use).

ΚΠ

1598 [implied in: S. Ward in M. M. Knappen Two Elizabethan Puritan Diaries (1933) 128 (modernized text) Our Master reported to Mr. Chaderton that my impediment in speech was not much perceived in Commonplacing. (at commonplacing n.)].

1662 H. More Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 2) Pref. Gen. p. xii It being the very Text upon which my self first common-placed in our Colledge Chappel.

1735 J. Byrom Jrnl. 27 June in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1855) I. ii. 635 (transcript from orig. shorthand) Mr. Topham commonplaced upon the resurrection of the same body, or rather against it.

1907 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 230 Worthington..went on in his peaceable course, common placing in the chapel, and catechising, preaching, and probleming.

b. intransitive. More generally: to discourse on something; (also transitive) to discourse on (something). In later use also: to utter commonplaces or trite sayings. Obsolete (rare after 17th cent.).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > become weak or feeble [verb (intransitive)] > write or discourse dully > use platitudes

commonplace1609

platitudinize1856

1609 R. Bernard Faithfull Shepheard (new ed.) 52 To take euery where occasion to common place vpon anie word.

?1620 F. Bacon Let. to King (modernized text) in Wks. (1874) XIV. iii. 72 For the good that comes of particular and select committees and commissions, I need not commonplace.

1646 F. Woodcock Ioseph paralled by Present Parl. 10 That I stay not too long in common-placing the point, my aime in this and the other that follow being especially application.

1839 Fraser's Mag. Dec. 653/1 Ponderous works commonplacing about admirable antiques, astonishing architecture, supereminent paintings, divine scenery, and celestial climates.

c. transitive. To supply a commonplace or commonplaces (commonplace n.² 1a) on (a particular topic). Obsolete.

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a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 35 Then a head in divinity was to be common placed in Latin, and the person was to maintain Theses upon it.

a. transitive. To enter (a notable or interesting passage, extract, etc.) into a commonplace book (commonplace book n.). In early use also: to arrange (the contents of a commonplace book) according to topic. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1649 J. Hart Fort-royal of Script. (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. *4 A new method, yet much differing from Cotton, Bernards Thesaurus, or Wilsons Dictionary; being of further extent and survey, in Common-placing most of the Heads handled therein.

a1656 J. Hales Golden Remains (1673) i. 277 The custom..hitherto, was common placing a thing at the first Original very plain and simple.

1745 E. Bentham Moral Philos. 106 This method of common-placing passages out of the Father grew into frequent use in the seventh and following Centuries.

1858 A. J. Graham Hand-bk. Standard or Amer. Phonography (front matter) An invaluable Aid in Common-placing, that is, entering in a book for the purpose, those portions of our reading, observation, or thought, which we desire to remember or have accessible as occasion requires.

2019 @Lexy_Sauve 3 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 30 Oct. 2020) You shared what I think was a Baxter quote on IG stories yesterday. Do you mind sharing it here? I meant to commonplace it earlier, but forgot!

b. transitive. To enter notable or interesting passages, extracts, etc., from (a text or author) into a commonplace book (commonplace book n.). Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > written record > album or commonplace book > record in album or commonplace book [verb (transitive)]

commonplace1735

scrap-book1879

1735 J. Armstrong Ess. abridging Study of Physic 35 He learns not only to prepare and compound Medicines, but, by perusing and Common-placing the Physicians Bills, how to apply them too.

1860 Lowndes' Bibl. Man. 1259 at M. Kempe In this work the author has commonplaced succinctly..above 1600 writers of divinity.

1930 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 16 594 Lord Kames's Historical Law Tracts which Jefferson read and commonplaced during his student days.

2000 Amer. Scholar Autumn 7/2 Probably he remembered Johnson's ‘Idler’ essay because he had once been moved to commonplace it himself.

c. intransitive. To enter notable or interesting passages, extracts, etc., into a commonplace book (commonplace book n.). Now chiefly historical and rare.

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1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 16 It was his Lordship's constant Practice to commonplace as he read.

1754 Earl of Chatham Lett. to Nephew (1804) 59 In general my advice to you is, not to common-place upon paper.

2013 Early Sci. & Med. 18 583 As he read, he extracted and commonplaced, ‘shredding’ texts into minimally sized units of information.

†3. transitive. To make (something) ordinary or commonplace. Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored with [verb (transitive)] > make trite or banal

hackney1598

commonplace1847

platitudinize1917

pedestrianize1945

banalize1949

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > render (a thing) habitual > make commonplace

hackney1598

vulgarize1709

commonplace1847

pedestrianize1945

banalize1949

1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. ii. 25 Coldly-read or fantastically-chaunted prayers, commonplaced by the twice-a-day repetition of centuries.

1895 W. E. Henley Let. 5 Sept. in H.G. Wells (1973) ii. vii. 110 I believe in your future; & I don't want to see it foundered. I believe in your future; & I don't want to see it commonplaced.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	commonplace
释义	commonplacen.²adj. Brit. /ˈkɒmənpleɪs/, U.S. /ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs/ Forms: see common adj. and adv. and place n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: common adj., place n.¹ Etymology: < common adj. + place n.¹, after classical Latin locus communis, itself after Hellenistic Greek κοινὸς τόπος (in ancient Greek simply τόπος (Aristotle: see topic adj.)), explained by Cicero ( Inv. 2. 14. 47 et seq.) as a general theme or argument applicable to many particular cases. Later, collections of such general topics were called loci communes (frequently from the early 16th cent. in book titles).Compare the following earlier example of the Latin phrase in an English context in sense A. 1a:1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xiv. sig. Hi Hauyng almoste all the places, whereof they shall fetche their raisons, called of Oratours loci communes.Stress pattern. A stress pattern with main stress on the second element and secondary stress on the first syllable of the first element is given in the 19th-cent. pronouncing dictionaries of Walker and Smart. A. n.² 1. a. A passage of text considered to be generally relevant or appropriate, which may serve as the basis for a discourse or discussion; a topic suitable to the purpose of a rhetorician. historical after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [noun] > passage > used as basis for argument commonplace?1531 locus communis1531 ?1531 R. Barnes Supplic. Kinge Henrye VIII f. i^v The comen places which he disputeth are these... The first is, that Alonlye faith iustefyeth before god... The seconde, what the church is [etc.]. 1692 S. Patrick Answer to Touchstone of Reformed Gospel 161 Why, he brings the common place, XV. Luke 10. which saith there is joy in their presence, that is, in heaven (as it is, v. 7.) over one sinner that repenteth. a1758 J. Ward Syst. Oratory (1759) I. iv. 51 The contrivance of common places, which Cicero calls the seats or heads of arguments, and by a Greek name topics. 1972 H. M. Solomon Public Welfare, Sci., & Propaganda in 17th Cent. iii. 82 These questions..were generally discussed through the use of ‘common places’. The speaker attacked the subject from all sides and with all of his rhetorical skills—simile, metaphor, quotations, amplification. 2015 L. Pernot Epideictic Rhetoric ii. 29 The ancient system of epideictic offered lists of commonplaces to be used for each sort of praised object as well as lists of different types of speeches for different occasions, aesthetic-style categories, and figures. †b. The theme or topic of a sermon or similar discourse. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > materials of topic > [noun] > of discourse matterc1330 lessona1375 contenu1477 content1509 thema1531 commonplace1549 subject matter1598 text1608 clue1656 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 5th Serm. sig. Pii Thys commune place..was verye well handeled the laste Sondaye. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) I. 260 The fear of God..was a pregnant and a plentiful common place for him to preach upon. 1665 R. Johnson Scholars Guide 29 Upon any common place, as Vertue, Learning, Love, War, &c. bethink a Sentence consisting of three or four words, for each word write down what Synonyma's you know. †c. A sermon or similar discourse delivered on a set theme or topic. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > treatise or dissertation > [noun] > thesis commonplace1595 thesea1600 law-act1645 thesis1653 thema1888 1595 S. Ward Diary 13 June in M. M. Knappen Two Elizabethan Puritan Diaries (1933) 107 My wandering thoughtes at the common place. Remember alwayes att the hearing of God word to be appliing the things delivered alwayes to thy self. 1665 T. H. Exact Surv. Affaires Netherlands 168 After they have performed their Sermon and Common-place. a1714 F. Brokesby Life H. Dodwell (1715) 19 His Common Places, that is, Exercises like Sermons, which were delivered in the College Chappel, shew him to be a good Scholar. 1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 16 A common place in favour of slavery and tyranny delivered to a popular assembly, would indeed be a bold defiance to all the principles of rhetoric. 2. a. Any of a collection of notable passages, extracts, etc., compiled to form the contents of a book, typically divided into topics or themes; (in early use also) any of the topics into which such contents are divided. Also: an interesting or notable passage, quotation, etc., copied for personal reference into a book or scrapbook intended for this purpose. Frequently in book of commonplaces n., commonplace book n.figurative in quot. 1752. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > [noun] saw9.. quideOE yedOE wordOE wisdomc1175 bysawe?c1225 riotc1330 sentencec1380 textc1386 dict1432 diction1477 redec1480 say1486 adage1530 commonplace?1531 adagy1534 soothsay1549 maxima1564 apophthegm1570 speech1575 gnome1577 aphorisma1593 imprese1593 spoke1594 symbol1594 maxim1605 wording1606 impress1610 motto1615 dictum1616 impresa1622 dictate1625 effate1650 sentiment1780 great thought1821 brocarda1856 text-motto1880 sententia1917 ?1531 J. Frith tr. P. Hamilton Paitrikes Places f. 2 A litle treatise..entreateth exactelye of certeyne comen places. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places Ep. Ded. sig. Aiii^v I haue..employed my diligence in collecting these common places. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 211 When all a Student knows of what he reads Is not in's own, but under general Heads Of Common-places. 1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit i, in Tale of Tub 287 Whatever in my small Reading occurs, concerning this our Fellow Creature [i.e. Ass], I do never fail to set it down, by way of Common-place. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 206. ⁋15 The only common places of his memory are his meals; and if you ask him at what time an event happened, he considers whether he heard it after a dinner of turbot or venison. 1843 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 5 Aug. 228/3 I rested not till I had inserted an ‘answer’..which everybody will acknowledge was well calculated for insertion in a book devoted to commonplaces. 2017 @KyriosityTweets 31 July in twitter.com (accessed 27 Oct. 2020) Don't just write commonplaces in a book; glue the quotes into a scrapbook. b. A book consisting of a collection of commonplaces (sense A. 2a); = commonplace book n. rare after the 18th cent. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > album or commonplace book > [noun] book of commonplaces1562 adversaria1571 commonplace book1572 stem-book1592 commonplace1607 album1612 commonplacera1631 topic folio1644 place-booka1659 pocketbook1660 blank book1713 scrap-book1825 guard book1839 press book1897 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes Ep. Ded. sig. A5^v Gesner relateth euery mans opinion (like a common place or Dictionary). 1666 G. Torriano (title) Piazza universale di proverbi Italiani. Or, a common place of Italian proverbs and proverbial phrases. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. ix. 290 The famous Story of Alexander and Clytus..entered in my Common-Place under Title Drunkenness. View more context for this quotation 1824 W. H. Prescott Let. 24 Jan. in G. Ticknor Life W. H. Prescott (1863) vi. 64 You ask me..if I chose to write it, why I did not put it in my Commonplace. 2020 @Brian_Sauve 14 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 16 Oct. 2020) This is in my commonplace from yesterday: ‘It's the person who demands respect the loudest who often deserves it the least’. 3. a. A statement, opinion, etc., that is generally accepted or assumed to be true; an everyday saying; a trite saying, a platitude, a truism. Also: a common or stock topic or subject of remark. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > self-evident truth, axiom > [noun] > trite saying, commonplace commonplace1560 household word1574 scholium1830 commonplaceism1831 banality1861 bromide1906 stock response1925 tag-phrase1933 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > dullness > use of platitudes > a platitude commonplace1560 platitude1815 commonplaceism1831 goodyism1883 1560 J. Knox et al. Buke Discipline in J. Knox Wks. (1848) II. 243 He must bind him self to his text, that he enter not in digressioun in explanyng commoun places. 1597 F. Bacon Of Coulers Good & Euill (Arb.) No. 10. 153 The common place of extolling the beginning of euery thing: Dimidium qui bene cœpit habet. 1638 A. Cowley Loves Riddle iv. sig. E2 Her skin like falling snow, her eyes like starres, Her cheekes like roses (which are common places Of all your lovers praises). 1741 W. Guthrie tr. Cicero Orations I. 15 Now that it [sc. this Appian Name] is discoloured with the Blood of a Robber and a Murderer, it is become a Common-Place of Conversation. 1856 N. Amer. Rev. July 264 That a child of New England should be the principal contemporary authority in this history, is a fresh illustration of the commonplace that ‘truth is stranger than fiction’. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 140 The paradoxes of one age often become the commonplaces of the next. 1916 J. Dewey Democracy & Educ. (1925) iv. 60 It is a commonplace to say that education should not cease when one leaves school. 1989 B. Spackman Decadent Genealogies ii. 63 Baudelaire argues against the commonplace that ‘la nature embellit la beaute’ (‘nature beautifies beauty’). 2010 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 31 July 30 One of the most vehement proofs of the commonplace that video games are best kept on PlayStations. †b. A person who is a common topic of comment or conversation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > topic of or subject for conversation or gossip > person discussed commonplacea1610 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object of ridicule > talked about, gazed or pointed at gazing stock1535 pointing-stock1585 pointing mark1592 commonplacea1610 storya1616 outspeckle1802 a1610 J. Healey tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) xxix. 34 Prepare thy selfe to bee..the common-place of the multitude of mockers [Gk. ὡς καταμωκησομένων σου πολλῶν]. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 230 The Papists were the most Popular Common-place, and the Butt against whom all the Arrows were directed. c. Commonplace discourse, speech, or writing; triviality. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usualness > that which is commonplace > collectively commonplace1732 day-to-day1965 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. iv. ii. 208 The Being of a God is a Subject upon which there has been a world of Common-place. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. lv. 356 Common subjects afford only commonplace. 1887 L. H. Bagg Ten Thousand Miles on Bicycle xxxvi. 642 I call this an interesting and valuable paper, in spite of all..the drivel and commonplace which it prints for ‘filling’. 1949 New Statesman 24 Sept. 336/2 Half a chapter of commonplace about Samarkand and Bokara..seem a poor reward for toiling with the author across dreary leagues of Asian railway. d. An ordinary or common object, action, or occurrence; something trite. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usualness > that which is commonplace staleness1617 hack1710 commonplace1802 quotidian1902 banalization1968 1802 W. Wordsworth To Daisy (2nd poem) 5 Thou unassuming Common-place Of Nature, with that homely face. 1850 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. (ed. 2) I. 83 A man whose eyes are in his head..observes commonplaces, and thinks of them. 1936 N.Y. Woman 23 Sept. 19/2 Their presence in the Royal Box at the opera in Covent Garden has become a commonplace. 1967 G. Steiner Lang. & Silence 22 Mr. Eliot's essay on Dante is a commonplace in literary education. 2015 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Sept. 16/1 The Western shirt, with a curve to the yoke and a mother-of-pearl personality to the pockets, became a cowboy commonplace. †4. Ordinariness, commonplaceness. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > quality of being commonplace or undistinguished ordinarinessa1617 vulgarity1646 greyness1663 commonness1779 commonplaceness1808 commonplace1842 commonplaceism1851 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > state or quality of being trite or banal tameness1530 triteness1727 triticalness1727 tritism1785 commonplaceness1808 prosiness1814 triticism1824 triticality1835 commonplace1842 commonplaceism1851 prosaicness1852 prosaism1855 hackneydom1867 prosaicalness1876 banality1878 mundanity1959 squareness1961 1842 T. Martin My Namesake in Fraser's Mag. Dec. There is no getting over the commonplace of the cognomen. 1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. ii. 63 Where..is the note of provinciality in Addison? I answer, in the commonplace of his ideas. 5. With the. Common or ordinary things as a class. ΚΠ 1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. iv. 104 A frontless, arrogant, decorous slip of the common-place. 1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow I. i. 1 The house..was a very type and embodiment of the commonplace. 1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 36 To them I owe a capacity for relishing the everyday and recognising the attractions in the commonplace. 2006 N.Y. Mag. 17 Apr. 88/3 Keller's genius is in taking the commonplace—the turkey sandwich, the ham and cheese, the PB&J—and elevating it to the pinnacle of its form. B. adj. 1. That is ordinary or common; usual.In quot. 1616 punning on an attributive use of sense A. 1a, with allusion to Aristotle's influence on the term (see note at etymology). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > commonplace quotidian1430 trite1548 beaten1587 trivial1589 threadbare1598 protrite1604 prose1606 commonplace1616 everyday1628 prostitute1631 prosaical1699 tritical1709 prosaic1729 tritish1779 hack1821 rum-ti-tum1832 unspecial1838 banal1840 commonplacish1847 prosy1849 inventionless1887 thread-worn1888 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > of no special quality > commonplace commona1382 ordinarc1400 plainc1430 famosec1449 famous1528 vulgar1580 ordinary1590 undistinguished1600 indistinguished1608 commonplace1616 unremarkable1628 irremarkable1635 bread and cheese1643 incurious1747 ordinary-looking1798 routine1826 indistinctive1846 common-seeming1857 bread-and-butterish1893 bread-and-buttery1893 timeworn1901 day-to-day1919 vanilla1972 standard1977 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne ii. iii, in Wks. I. 543 There's Aristotle, a mere common place -fellow. View more context for this quotation 1648 Mercurius Britanicus No. 10. 78 We were so accustomed to these common-place pieces of knavery, that we can smell them at any distance. 1794 Malecontent 3 You seem to recur to the names of Mr. Burke, and Mr. Reeves, more frequently than to any others; as if they were the common-place topics of slander. 1908 E. M. Forster Room with View 109 He had known Lucy for several years, but only as a commonplace girl who happened to be musical. 1975 E. Dunlop Robinsheugh (1987) x. 82 What she wanted most in the world was a bit of friendly, commonplace chatter. The silences in this house could be so unnerving. 2012 D. Wilson Mary Ann Cotton (2013) iii. 94 Murder through using white arsenic became so commonplace that people joked about white powdering their enemies. 2. depreciative. Not interesting or original; trite. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > dull through repetition trite1548 beaten1587 threadbare1598 repetitious1673 hackneyed1747 monotonous1780 commonplace1801 thread-worn1888 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > trite or banal quotidian1430 trite1548 protrite1604 obvious1617 unbravea1681 prosaical1699 tritical1709 prosaic1729 hack1759 unstrikinga1774 commonplace1801 prosy1837 banal1840 mundane1850 unsensational1854 bromidic1906 corn-fed1929 corn-ball1970 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > dull > stale or mechanical vinnied1563 overworn1578 seta1616 stock1738 hackneyed1747 commonplace1801 stereotype1824 stereotyped1849 hacky1862 stereotypic1884 cliché1895 cliché-ridden1920 clichéd1925 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 138 The medal has been given to the most wretched, tame, common-place performance, you ever saw. 1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 6/3 ‘Has life been that hard for you, Claire?’ ‘Oh, just monotonous and commonplace.’ Then in a little fierce burst of pent-up resentment, ‘Yes—it's been that hard! I do believe there's nothing worse than the dull, perpetual routine of housework.’ 2009 Observer (Nexis) 31 May 15 Podeswa's confusing, commonplace film lumbers along with a painful sincerity. Phrases book of commonplaces n. a book consisting of a collection of commonplaces (senses A. 1a, A. 2a); a book or scrapbook into which interesting quotations, extracts, etc., are copied for personal reference; = commonplace book n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > album or commonplace book > [noun] book of commonplaces1562 adversaria1571 commonplace book1572 stem-book1592 commonplace1607 album1612 commonplacera1631 topic folio1644 place-booka1659 pocketbook1660 blank book1713 scrap-book1825 guard book1839 press book1897 1562 T. Norton in tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (new ed.) Transl. Pref. sig. A.i^v Many great learned men haue written bokes of common places of our religion, as Melanchton, Sarcerius, and other. 1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme ii. vi. 66 The Theatre of the world is an excercise of Mans wit, not a lazy Polyanthea or book of Common places. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 22. ⁋6 Having by me, in my Book of Common Places, enough to enable me to finish a very sad one [sc. Tragedy] by the Fifth of next month. 1790 Mem. Literary & Philos. Soc. Manch. 4 55 The Anatomy of Melancholy..is so crouded with quotations, that the reader is apt to mistake it for a book of commonplaces. 1893 Birmingham Daily Post 27 Oct. 7/6 The book is not..a mere tyro's book of commonplaces. 1956 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 71 484 I draw these quotations from a book of commonplaces. 2006 H. Jacobson Kalooki Nights iii. 68 The reddest of red threads..looped limply in faded pink, like pressed roses found in a spinster's book of commonplaces. Compounds † commonplace man n. Obsolete (originally) a person who writes or discourses on commonplaces (sense A. 1a); (later) a person who utters commonplaces or trite sayings. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > self-evident truth, axiom > [noun] > trite saying, commonplace > user of commonplace man1627 commonplacer1731 hackneyer1779 1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (ii. 17) 216 Iustice..whereto also Popish common-place-men referre mercy and the workes thereof as to their head. 1692 J. Norris Cursory Refl. Ess. Human Understanding 41 in Christian Blessedness (ed. 2) I hate your Common-place men of all the Writers in the World. 1826 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 84/2 The exhausted common-placemen, and the afflicted fool. † commonplace talker n. Obsolete (originally) a person who discourses on commonplaces (sense A. 1a); (later) a person who utters commonplaces or trite sayings. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > dullness > one who commonplace talker1711 proser1769 prosaist1831 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 11. ⁋1 I found her accompanied with one Person, only, a Common-place talker, who..turning to Arietta, pursued his Discourse, which I found was upon the old Topick, of Constancy in Love. 1843 Era 15 Jan. 4/4 Some common-place talkers..would fain speak of nothing but the clever hands in which the direction of public affairs is placed. ?1881 How to shine in Soc. 62 A commonplace talker is a decided bore of society, and a most wearisome one too. Derivatives † commonplacish adj. Obsolete rare somewhat ordinary or commonplace. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > commonplace quotidian1430 trite1548 beaten1587 trivial1589 threadbare1598 protrite1604 prose1606 commonplace1616 everyday1628 prostitute1631 prosaical1699 tritical1709 prosaic1729 tritish1779 hack1821 rum-ti-tum1832 unspecial1838 banal1840 commonplacish1847 prosy1849 inventionless1887 thread-worn1888 1847 J. B. Kington Battle of Nibley Green 303 The volume contained Chansons Diverses, with the music: the words, divested of a certain warmth and a little of the bacchanalian fervour, but common-placeish; the airs, some of them, pretty. 1876 Tinsley's Mag. 19 599 An amiable, pretty, commonplacish girl. † commonplace-wise adv. Obsolete in the manner of a commonplace (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > album or commonplace book > [adverb] > in manner of commonplace book commonplace-wise1584 1584 T. Cartwright Let. 23 Mar. in A. Peel & L. H. Carlson Cartwrightiana (1951) iii. 113 Some labour the knowledge of the Word by interpretations of it, other generally by Commentary Commonplace wise. 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes ii. 366 [He] that collected, common-place-wise, out of S. Chrysostomes Works, those passages. 1628 J. Hume Jewes Deliv. vii. 108 I purpose not to discourse of Prayer common-place-wise. a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) II. 30 The Emperor..was at the pains..to dispose under several heads, common-place-wise, whatever he was most desirous to understand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). commonplacev. Brit. /ˈkɒmənpleɪs/, U.S. /ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: commonplace n.²; commonplace adj. Etymology: Partly < commonplace n.², and partly < commonplace adj. †1. a. intransitive. To deliver an address or discourse based on a commonplace (commonplace n.² 1a). Obsolete (historical and rare in later use). ΚΠ 1598 [implied in: S. Ward in M. M. Knappen Two Elizabethan Puritan Diaries (1933) 128 (modernized text) Our Master reported to Mr. Chaderton that my impediment in speech was not much perceived in Commonplacing. (at commonplacing n.)]. 1662 H. More Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 2) Pref. Gen. p. xii It being the very Text upon which my self first common-placed in our Colledge Chappel. 1735 J. Byrom Jrnl. 27 June in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1855) I. ii. 635 (transcript from orig. shorthand) Mr. Topham commonplaced upon the resurrection of the same body, or rather against it. 1907 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 230 Worthington..went on in his peaceable course, common placing in the chapel, and catechising, preaching, and probleming. b. intransitive. More generally: to discourse on something; (also transitive) to discourse on (something). In later use also: to utter commonplaces or trite sayings. Obsolete (rare after 17th cent.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > become weak or feeble [verb (intransitive)] > write or discourse dully > use platitudes commonplace1609 platitudinize1856 1609 R. Bernard Faithfull Shepheard (new ed.) 52 To take euery where occasion to common place vpon anie word. ?1620 F. Bacon Let. to King (modernized text) in Wks. (1874) XIV. iii. 72 For the good that comes of particular and select committees and commissions, I need not commonplace. 1646 F. Woodcock Ioseph paralled by Present Parl. 10 That I stay not too long in common-placing the point, my aime in this and the other that follow being especially application. 1839 Fraser's Mag. Dec. 653/1 Ponderous works commonplacing about admirable antiques, astonishing architecture, supereminent paintings, divine scenery, and celestial climates. c. transitive. To supply a commonplace or commonplaces (commonplace n.² 1a) on (a particular topic). Obsolete. ΚΠ a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 35 Then a head in divinity was to be common placed in Latin, and the person was to maintain Theses upon it. 2. a. transitive. To enter (a notable or interesting passage, extract, etc.) into a commonplace book (commonplace book n.). In early use also: to arrange (the contents of a commonplace book) according to topic. Now rare. ΚΠ 1649 J. Hart Fort-royal of Script. (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. 4 A new method, yet much differing from Cotton, Bernards Thesaurus, or Wilsons Dictionary; being of further extent and survey, in Common-placing most of the Heads handled therein. a1656 J. Hales Golden Remains* (1673) i. 277 The custom..hitherto, was common placing a thing at the first Original very plain and simple. 1745 E. Bentham Moral Philos. 106 This method of common-placing passages out of the Father grew into frequent use in the seventh and following Centuries. 1858 A. J. Graham Hand-bk. Standard or Amer. Phonography (front matter) An invaluable Aid in Common-placing, that is, entering in a book for the purpose, those portions of our reading, observation, or thought, which we desire to remember or have accessible as occasion requires. 2019 @Lexy_Sauve 3 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 30 Oct. 2020) You shared what I think was a Baxter quote on IG stories yesterday. Do you mind sharing it here? I meant to commonplace it earlier, but forgot! b. transitive. To enter notable or interesting passages, extracts, etc., from (a text or author) into a commonplace book (commonplace book n.). Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > album or commonplace book > record in album or commonplace book [verb (transitive)] commonplace1735 scrap-book1879 1735 J. Armstrong Ess. abridging Study of Physic 35 He learns not only to prepare and compound Medicines, but, by perusing and Common-placing the Physicians Bills, how to apply them too. 1860 Lowndes' Bibl. Man. 1259 at M. Kempe In this work the author has commonplaced succinctly..above 1600 writers of divinity. 1930 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 16 594 Lord Kames's Historical Law Tracts which Jefferson read and commonplaced during his student days. 2000 Amer. Scholar Autumn 7/2 Probably he remembered Johnson's ‘Idler’ essay because he had once been moved to commonplace it himself. c. intransitive. To enter notable or interesting passages, extracts, etc., into a commonplace book (commonplace book n.). Now chiefly historical and rare. ΚΠ 1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 16 It was his Lordship's constant Practice to commonplace as he read. 1754 Earl of Chatham Lett. to Nephew (1804) 59 In general my advice to you is, not to common-place upon paper. 2013 Early Sci. & Med. 18 583 As he read, he extracted and commonplaced, ‘shredding’ texts into minimally sized units of information. †3. transitive. To make (something) ordinary or commonplace. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored with [verb (transitive)] > make trite or banal hackney1598 commonplace1847 platitudinize1917 pedestrianize1945 banalize1949 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > render (a thing) habitual > make commonplace hackney1598 vulgarize1709 commonplace1847 pedestrianize1945 banalize1949 1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. ii. 25 Coldly-read or fantastically-chaunted prayers, commonplaced by the twice-a-day repetition of centuries. 1895 W. E. Henley Let. 5 Sept. in H.G. Wells (1973) ii. vii. 110 I believe in your future; & I don't want to see it foundered. I believe in your future; & I don't want to see it commonplaced. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.²adj.?1531v.1598
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