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Webster 1913 Edition

Commonplace

Com′mon-placeˊ

,
Adj.
Common; ordinary; trite;
as, a
commonplace
person, or observation
.

Com′mon-placeˊ

,
Noun.
1.
An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
2.
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.

Com′mon-placeˊ

,
Verb.
T.
To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
Felton.

Com′mon-placeˊ

,
Verb.
I.
To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
[Obs.]
Bacon.

Webster 1828 Edition

Commonplace

COMMONPLACE

,
Noun.
A memorandum; a common topic.

COMMONPLACE

,
Verb.
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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