commonious

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English

Etymology

Perhaps from a misconstruction of commodious, under influence from other Latinate adjectives ending -onious; compare melonious.

Pronunciation

Adjective

commonious (comparative more commonious, superlative most commonious)

  1. (uncommon) Commodious.
    • 1881 October 29, The Times, number 30338, London, page 2:
      INNS of COURT FAMILY HOTEL, High Holborn and Lincoln's-inn-fields, London, W.O. Central, quiet, commonious. Situation unsurpassed. Dining and sitting rooms overlook beautiful gardens. Hydraulic lifts. Wedding breakfasts, &c. Table d'hôte.
    • 1892, J. Cave-Browne, The History of Boxley Parish, page 105:
      Thus has grown by degrees, out of the humble two-roomed domicile of the medieval celibate priest, the commonious dwelling-house of the modern family-man Vicar, the type of an English home, the centre of the energizing activity of an English Parish.
    • 1961, Earl Leon Werley Heck, The Rise of Higher Education in California, 1834–1910:
      In conformity with other institutions first known as "universities", the Methodist school decided to drop the more pretentious term, henceforth to be called the College of the Pacific. In 1924 it moved to a commonious campus at Stockton. Like other Californian colleges, however, it decided to remain a relative small institution.