intercommon

English

Etymology

From Old French entrecommuner. See inter- and common.

Verb

intercommon (third-person singular simple present intercommons, present participle intercommoning, simple past and past participle intercommoned)

1. (obsolete) To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     the spirits of the wine do prey upon the roscid juice of the body , and inter-common with the spirits of the body , and so deceive and rob them of their nourishment

2. (obsolete, UK, law) To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “intercommon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)