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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

... Conti Guidi had been compelled to sell to the Florentines their stronghold of Montemurlo, because they could not defend it from the Pistoians. The Cerchi and the Buondelmonti had been forced by the Florentine Commune to give up their fortresses and to take up their abode in the city, where they became powerful, and where the bitterness of intestine discord and party strife had been greatly enhanced by ...

— The Divine Comedy, Volume 3, Paradise [Paradiso] • Dante Alighieri

... and general, and so bases that government in self-interest and beneficial experience, that it is a pledge of security and perpetuity as regards socialism, communism, and as it would seem every other revolutionary influence from within. It is in strong contrast with the commune of France. France is divided for the purposes of local government into departments; departments into arrondissements; and arrondissements into communes, the commune being the administrative unit. The department is governed by a prefet and a conseil-general, the prefet ...

— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 5, May, 1884 - A Massachusetts Magazine • Various

... doctrine of lines and surfaces was as disproportionate with her intellects as with those of the mock-bird. She had not reasoned on the principles of human action, nor examined the structure of society.... She could not commune in their native dialect with the sages of Rome and Athens.... The constitution of nature, the attributes of its Author, the arrangement of the parts of the external universe, and the substance, modes of operation, and ultimate destiny of human {396} ...

— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers

... the awakening and craving of our souls. The historian narrates but the signs of the times, and strives to efface himself; yet there is clearly a void, becoming yearly more apparent, which materialism cannot fill. Is it some new subtle force for which we sigh, or would we commune with spirits? There is, so far as we can see, no limit to our journey, and I will add, in closing, that, with the exception of religion, we have most ...

— A Journey in Other Worlds • J. J. Astor

... to take up this monthly.... When we drop anchor and sit down to commune with philosophy as taught by Buchanan, the fogs and mists of the ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 - Volume 1, Number 1 • Various

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