intercommon

inter-common

From Old French entrecommuner. See inter- and common.

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.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 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 indiscriminately in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc.
   • 1736, Francis Blomefield, History of Norfolk, volume 3 Chapter 25:

     They openly declared great hatred against all gentlemen, whom they maliciously accused of covetousness, pride, extortion, and oppression, practised against their tenants and the common people, and having thoroughly imbibed the wicked notions of the ancient levellers, they begin to put in execution their vile designs, and first of all, the inhabitants of Attleburgh, Eccles, Wilby, and other neighbouring towns, being enraged with Mr. John Green lord of the manor of Wilby, for enclosing that part of the common belonging to his manor, which before laid open to the adjoining commons of Harfham and Attleburgh, on which they had all rights of intercommoning with each other, the tenants of the three towns, and others, assembled together, and threw down the new ditches, and laid the whole open as heretofore.

• “intercommon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.