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COMMONPLACE, n. A memorandum; a common topic.

COMMONPLACE, v.t. To enter in a commonplace-book, or to reduce to general heads.

Commonplace-book, a book in which are registered such facts, opinions or observations as are deemed worthy of notice or remembrance, so disposed that any one may be easily found. Hence common-place as used as an epithet to denote what is common or often repeated, or trite; as a commonplace observation.

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Commonplace (commonplace)
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Com"mon*place`
  1. Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
  2. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
  3. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.

    Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace.
    Swift.

    Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.

  4. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
    Felton.
  5. To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
    [Obs.] Bacon.

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