commonplacern.
/ˈkɒmənpleɪsə/, U.S. /ˈkɑmənˌpleɪsər/ 1.
a. A commonplace book. rare.
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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
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 56 Such ragges and fragments of those Fathers, as were patcht together in their Decretat's, and Decretals, and other such Common placers.
2019 @KWigginsSVVSD 2 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 15 Oct. 2020) I keep a commonplacer and take notes too!
b. A compiler of commonplace books (commonplace book n.); a person who writes down notable quotations, extracts, etc., in a commonplace book. Now chiefly historical or archaic.
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society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun] > keeper of album or commonplace book
commonplacer1644
albumess1829
1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) To Parl. sig. A4 The narrow intellectuals of quotationists and common placers.
1698 C. Boyle Dr. Bentley's Diss. Epist. Phalaris, Examin'd 27 Two such men, for whom..Dr. Bentley on any other occasion would have had a particular regard: the one an eminent Commonplacer, and the other a no less eminent Dictionary-writer.
1830 Fraser's Mag. ii. 184 A common-placer of his jests.
1988 L. Rosenwald Emmerson & Art of Diary ii. 31 Having prepared the index page, the commonplacer sits down to read.
2017 A. Williams Social Life of Bks. v. 129 Commonplacers had been advised to concentrate their selection upon textual forms that used language elegantly, and economically.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > self-evident truth, axiom > [noun] > trite saying, commonplace > user of
commonplace man1627
commonplacer1731
hackneyer1779
1731 Reformer 18 Jan. 1 The same Reasons have been so often repeated, that our modern Moralists are now no more than Common-Placers, and the strongest arguments are become cold Repetitions.
1833 Standard 19 Aug. It provokes our spleen to hear some drivelling commonplacer in parliament prating about the great benefits resulting from education.
1908 Watson's Jeffersonian Mag. Sept. 573/2 Bryan is the Great Commonplacer, the Bishop of all Bourgeoisie, the Prince of Sophists. He talks more and says less than any living man.
3. colloquial (originally U.S.). A common or ordinary person or thing.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant
unknownc1390
pawnc1450
semi-cipher?1550
bauble1570
Jack with the feather1581
nobody1583
winterling1585
squash1600
rush candle1628
niflec1635
nullity1657
nonentity1710
featherweight1812
underscrub1822
nyaff1825
small fish1836
no-account1840
little fish1846
peanut1864
commonplacer1874
sparrow-fart1886
Little Willie1901
pipsqueak1905
nebbish1907
pie-biter1911
blob1916
smallie1930
no-count1932
zilch1933
Mickey Mouse1935
muzhik1945
nerd1951
nothingburger1953
nerk1955
non-person1959
no-mark1982
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [noun] > mediocre thing or person
ordinary1588
commonplacer1874
mill-run1928
middling1931
1874 State Jrnl. (Jefferson City, Missouri) 27 Nov. Then followed a dozen or so of the ‘fair to middling’ [pretty girls], one or two ‘extra superfine’, and a long file of commonplacers.
1990 D. Parkinson Good Movie Guide 123/1 A desire to work..induced him into an excess of commonplacers, although On Golden Pond..brought the overdue Oscar.
2018 @onewendy 7 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 15 Oct. 2020) Their Lordships are usually far more in touch than the commonplacers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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