2. To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper.

To commune under both kinds.

Bp. Burnet.

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

Com"mune (?), n. Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends.

For days of happy commune dead.

Tennyson.

Com"mune (?), n. [F., fr. commun. See Common.] 1. The commonalty; the common people. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.

J. R. Green.

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.

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