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Commune   /kˈɑmjun/  /kəmjˈun/   Listen
Commune

noun
1.
The smallest administrative district of several European countries.
2.
A body of people or families living together and sharing everything.
verb
(past & past part. communed; pres. part. communing)
1.
Communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity.
2.
Receive Communion, in the Catholic church.  Synonym: communicate.






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"Commune" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the class of eloquence in the seminary, and so revolutionary sociology took possession of him. First of all it was Proudhon with his audacious writings, and afterwards the work was completed by some "militantes" who were working in the same printing office as himself—old soldiers of the Commune, who had lately returned from their exile in the prisons of Oceania, and were renewing their campaign against social organisation with an ardour increased tenfold by their painful sufferings and their desire of vengeance. With them he ...
— The Shadow of the Cathedral • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... had been ushered into the drawing-room after dinner by Mrs. Fowler, at the sight of whom my inmost soul had recoiled. I remember, indeed, pitying her little ladyship for being under such dominion, and longing to ask her whether Fowler had told her the story of Simon the Jew. But I could never commune with Lady Anne; for either she was up in the nursery, or Fowler was at her back in the drawing-room, or little Lady Anne was sitting upright on her stool at her mother's feet, whom I did not care to approach, and in whose presence I seldom ventured to speak—consequently my curiosity ...
— Tales & Novels, Vol. IX - [Contents: Harrington; Thoughts on Bores; Ormond] • Maria Edgeworth

... I am 480 But man, and was not made to judge mankind, Far less the sons of God; but as our God Has deigned to commune with me, and reveal His judgments, I reply, that the descent Of Seraphs from their everlasting seat Unto a perishable and perishing, Even on the very eve of perishing[153]?—world, ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron

... of the case of scandal or contempt, divines teach that conscience is not bound by the canon of the church made about order and policy. Extra casum scandali et destinatae rebellionis, propter commune bonum, non peccat qui contra constitutiones istas fecerit, saith Junius.(114) "If a law (saith Perkins)(115) concerning some external right or thing indifferent, be at some time or upon some occasion omitted, no offence given, nor contempt showed to ecclesiastical authority, there is ...
— The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Gillespie

... the "World Commune," which was performed at the opening of the Third International Congress in Petrograd, was a still more important and significant phenomenon. I do not suppose that anything of the kind has been staged since the days of the mediaeval ...
— The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism • Bertrand Russell


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