2. Allowed to pasture on public commons.

Commonable beasts are either beasts of the plow, or such as manure the ground.

Blackstone.

Com"mon*age (?), n. [Cf. OF. communage.] The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others.

The claim of commonage . . . in most of the forests.

Burke.

Com"mon*al*ty (?), n.; pl. Commonalties (#). [OF. communaltÚ; F. communautÚ, fr. communal. See Communal.] 1. The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.

The commonalty, like the nobility, are divided into several degrees.

Blackstone.

The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the commonalty in plenteousness only.

Landon.

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