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 Les grands commissaires des procez. A select companie of the Presidents, and Counsellors (or assistants) of a Court, who ordinarily pronounce Iudgements, and make decrees.  Les petis commissaires des procez. Are others, who by th' appointment, and limitation of the Court, examine the proues, or contradictions, and dates of euidences, bookes, depositions, &c; and thereof making a report, proceed no further.  Repaistre en commissaire. To feed plentifully, or apace, at other mens tables, or charges.  Traicté en commissaire. That hath both fish and flesh set afore him; or, as we say, intertained like a Lord.

Commission: f. A commission, or delegation; a charge, Mandate, commaundement, or warrant, for th' exercising of iurisdiction, &c, giuen by letters patents, or vnder a publicke seale.  Elle a tousiours quelque commission par la ville. Said merily of a woman thats euer gadding abroad.

Commissure: f. A commissure, or seame in a boane, (as in the skull;) also, any neere closing, ioyning, or couching of things together.

Commistion: f. A commixtion; a mixing, or mingling of seuerall things together,

Committimus: lettres de com. Speciall commissions, directed, in the behalf of priuiledged persons, vnto their peculiar Judges.

Commodat: m. A loane, or lending.

Commode: com. Commodious; conuenient; proper, apt, meet, fit.

Commodement. Commodiously; conueniently; aptly, fitly, meetly; to the purpose, as one would haue it.

Commoderation du corps. A good disposition of the whole bodie; a correspondencie, or equall proportion, of good temper in euerie part, or member thereof.

Commodité: f. Commoditie, vtilitie, profit, benefit, thrift; also, aptnesse, fitnesse; conueniencie, ease, handsomenesse.

Commoditer. To thriue, gaine, grow rich, preuaile; benefit, or accommodate, himselfe.

Commotion. A commotion, tumult, stirre, vprore, hurly burly; a perturbation; trouble, disquietnesse.

Commourans. Dying together.

Commourir. To die together, or one for companie of another.

Commouvoir. To vex, trouble, disturbe; shake, moue, raise, or stirre vp; (also, to rise, or stirre) together against.

Commué: m. ée: f. Changed, altered; bartered, exchanged.

Commuer. To change, alter; barter, trucke, exchange one thing for another.

Commun: m. A people, the common people; a comminaltie; a corporation; also, a thing thats common, or enioyed in common; whence;  Commun n'est pas vn: Pro. Common things are no one mans things; or, that which is common belongs to no man.  Ouvrage de commun ouvrage de nul: Prov. All mens worke is no mans worke; or, that which is done for many is acknowledged by none.  Qui sert commun nul ne le paye, & s'il defaut chascun l'abbaye: Prov. The seruice done to a people no man rewards, the disseruices euery man railes at.

Commun: m. une: f. Common, publicke, vulgar, generall, that belongs to one as well as to another; also, much vsed. Chemin commun. The high-way, road way.  Chiens communs. Hounds that will deale with any kind of game.  Veine commune. Looke Veine. De bien commun on ne fait pas souvent monceau: Prov. Men seldome raise great heapes of publicke treasure.

Communal: m. A common, or great peece of vntilled land.

Communauté: f. The comminaltie, or common people; also, communitie, participation, fellowship, societie, fraternitie; good correspondencie, neere familiaritie one with another; also, a societie, brotherhood, corporation, or companie incorporate; also, a commoning, or holding in common with others.

Commune. la com. The common people, the vulgar, the rude and rascall multitude; also, a commons, common field, or towne field.  Communes. Companies of footmen leuied, and taken out of villages.

Communément. Commonly, vsually, ordinarily, generally, publikely, in common, with common consent.

Communicable: com. Communicable; fit for, appliable vnto; also, conuersable, affable.

Communicatif: m. iue: f. Familiar, courteous, affable, easie to be spoken with; also, communicatiue, or whereof many are to haue part.

Communication: f. A communication, or conuersation; a talking, a consultation; also, a participation, imparting, or making common a thing with others.

Communier. To communicate, to receiue the Communion.

Communion: f. A Communion, fellowship, mutuall participation.

Communiqué: m. ée: f. Communicated, participated, imparted; also, conferred, talked, or communed, with.

Communiquer. To communicate, participate, impart, mix with, take, or giue part of; also, to conferre, talke, or commune with; to reueale a councell, or secret vnto.

Commutatif: m. iue: f. Commutatiue; bartering, trucking, exchanging one with, or for, another.

Compacte: com. Compacted; well set, knit, trust, pight, or ioyned together.

Compacture: f. The compacture, solide frame, substantiall ioyning of all the parts of a thing together.

Compagn. as Compagnon: ¶Rab. Compagnable: com. Companable, friendlie, sociable, conuersable.

Compagne: f. A she mate, fellow, friend, companion.  C'est vne bonne compagne. She is a sociable wench, a good merrie lasse; (a phrase not taken altogether so ill as our good fellow would be.)

Compagnie: f. Companie, fellowship, societie; also, a crue, rout, assemblie, consort, or knot of; also, a companie, or band of souldiors.  Compagnie Françoise. Wenches (in the opinion of a wanton Priest.)  Bestes de compagnie. Yong wild swine which follow their dammes, in great troups, vntill they be about 18 moneths old, and then leaue them, and with them, this title.

Compagnon: m. A companion, associate, fellow, mate, colleague, partner, or copartner; also, an accessarie in an offence. Compagnon d'armes. A companion, or fellow in armes; (a tearme of more eminencie than, Compagnon de guerre.) Cōpagnon de guerre. he that serues in the same acti-*