intercommuningn.
1. Mutual conversation, discourse, or intercourse.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun]
speechc900
talec1000
speaka1300
reasonc1300
speakinga1325
counsela1350
intercommuningc1374
dalliancec1400
communication1419
communancec1449
collocutiona1464
parlour?c1475
sermocination1514
commona1529
dialogue?1533
interlocutiona1534
discourse1545
discoursing1550
conference1565
purposea1572
talk1572
interspeech1579
conversationa1586
devising1586
intercourse1596
intercommunication1603
eclogue1604
commercing1610
communion1614
negocea1617
alloquy1623
confariation1652
gob1681
gab1761
commune1814
colloquy1817
conversing1884
cross-talk1887
bull session1920
rap1957
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) ii. pr. vii. 44 [For] defawte of vn-vsage and entrecomunynge of marchaundise.
1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. ii. 114 Participation & intercommuning of the Churches togyther, by councels, and assemblies.
1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 220 To be selected for his intercommunings by a man like him..was something.
2. † b. under intercommuning: proscribed by letters of intercommuning. Obsolete.
a. Scots Law. The holding of intercourse or having dealings with a person legally proscribed. letter (or writ) of intercommuning: a letter issued by the Privy Council, or other authority, prohibiting intercourse with the person or persons named in it. Now Historical.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > harbouring criminals or outlaws
flemensfirthc1020
resetc1485
receptment1620
intercommuning1646
society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > writ prohibiting communication
letter (or writ) of intercommuning1646
writ of intercommoninga1715
1646 J. Maxwell Burden of Issachar (1708) II. 300 Upon the same Remonstrance goeth out a Writ, which there they call Letters of Intercommuning..the Intent is, that none of the King's Subjects commune or confer with him..otherwise, the Intercommuner is to be judg'd and reputed to be a Rebel of the same guiltiness.
1761–2 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) V. lxvi. 59 Several writs of intercommuning were now issued against the hearers and preachers in conventicles.
a1806 C. J. Fox Hist. James II (1808) ii. 110 Letters had been issued by government, forbidding the intercommuning with persons who had neglected, or refused, to appear before the privy council, when cited for the above crimes.
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society > authority > punishment > outlawry > [phrase] > outlawed
under intercommuning1679
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > rendering outcast > outcast > outlaw > proscribed by letters of intercommuning
under intercommuning1679
1679 London Gaz. No. 1406/2 Whereas there are several Persons under Caption and Intercommuning in the said Shire for several Causes [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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