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/kˈɑmjun/ /kəmjˈun/ Listen

noun

Commune n. Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends. "For days of happy commune dead."

Commune n.

1.

The commonalty; the common people. (Obs.) "In this struggle to use the technical words of the time of the "commune", the general mass of the inhabitants, against the "prudhommes" or "wiser" few."

2.

A small territorial district in France under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government, of such a district. See Arrondissement.

3.

Absolute municipal self-government.

4.

A group of people living together as an organized community and owning in common most or all of their property and possessions, and sharing work, income, and many other aspects of daily life. Such sommunities are oftten organized based on religious or idealistic principles, and they sometimes have unconventional lifestyles, practises, or moral codes.

The Commune of Paris, or The Commune

(a)

The government established in Paris (1792-94) by a usurpation of supreme power on the part of representatives chosen by the communes; the period of its continuance is known as the "Reign of Terror."

(b)

The revolutionary government, modeled on the commune of 1792, which the communists, so called, attempted to establish in 1871.

verb

Commune v. i. (past & past part. communed; pres. part. communing)

1.

To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel. "I would commune with you of such things That want no ear but yours."

2.

To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper. "To commune under both kinds."

To commune with one's self or To commune with one's heart, to think; to reflect; to meditate.

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"Commune" Quotes from Famous Books

... Knox preach she formed a high opinion of him, and was solicitous ever after of his society. (1) Nor was Knox unresponsive. "I have always delighted in your company," he writes, "and when labours would permit, you know I have not spared hours to talk and commune with you." Often when they had met in depression he reminds her, "God hath sent great comfort unto both." (2) We can gather from such letters as are yet extant how close and continuous was their intercourse. "I think it best you remain till the morrow," ...

— Familiar Studies of Men & Books • Robert Louis Stevenson

... classes of deaconesses formally recognized, nurses and teachers; although there is another, deaconess whose work is year by year becoming more important, and that is the deaconess who is attached to a church in the capacity of a home missionary. She is designated by the term "commune-deaconess," or, as the English ...

— Deaconesses in Europe - and their Lessons for America • Jane M. Bancroft

... among the poets we would speak at more length. In fact, to the imaginative mind, the daisy in poetry is as suggestive as the daisy in nature. Philosophically, they are identical; in the absence of the one you can commune with the other. Thus unconsciously the daisy undergoes a metempsychosis; its soul is transferred at will from meadow to book and from book to meadow, without losing a ...

— The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 - A Typographic Art Journal • Various

... where the religion of Goethe began; he was far more of a pagan and individualist than the great German; he lived for the beautiful and extraordinary, but not for the Good and still less for the Whole; he acknowledged no moral obligation; in commune bonis was an ideal which never said anything to him; he cared nothing for the common weal; he held himself above the mass of the people with an Englishman's extravagant insularity and aggressive pride. Politics, social problems, ...

— Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris

... which stormed the Malakoff; his victories in the Italian War of 1859 against Austria, including the great battle of Magenta, all made him a striking, romantic figure. He failed in 1870 against the Prussians at Worth, and was made prisoner with his army at Sedan, but he suppressed the Commune after the war and was President of France from 1873 to 1879. The device by which 300 Irishmen took part on the French side in the war with Germany has a grim humor. They went as aides in an ambulance corps fitted out in Dublin by subscription, ...

— The Glories of Ireland • Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox

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