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- columbare:—a dovecote.
- columbaria:—putlog holes.
- culumbarius:—a keeper of pigeons.
- columbella:—a pigeon.
- colustrum:—new milk.
- comba:—a combe, valley.
- combuslio:—trial of money at the Exchequer.
- comes:—an ealdorman; a count; an earl.
- comestio:—dinner.
- comitatio, comitatus:— a county; a county court.
- comitiva:—a company.
- commandare. See commendare.
- commarchia:—a frontier.
- commater, cemmatrix:—used for the relationship between one who has held a child at baptism and the mother, O. E. gomm; a godmother.
- commenda:—a, deposit; when a benefice is given to a layman, or to a clerk for a time, it is said to be given in commendam; a commandry, a benefice in the order of the knights of St. John.
- commendare:—to lend, to deposit; to order; to put oneself under the protection of another.
- commendatarius:—one who holds a living in commendam.
- commendatitius:—of commendation, esp. literæ.
- commendatus:—a person who puts himself under the protection of his superior by doing voluntary homage.
- commensale:—board; diet; commons.
- commensalis:—a fellow-boarder, fellow-commoner.
- commensare:—to begin.
- commissarius:—a commissary, one who exercises spiritual jurisdiction by commission of a bishop.
- commissio:—a commission.
- commissionarias:—one who acts by commission; a commissioner.
- commonitio: - summons.
- commorancia:—dwelling, residence.
- commothum:—a commote, a quarter, or some say a half of a cantred.
- communa:—common land or property; right of common; commons; a community; a fiscal regulation.
- communantia:—the communance, the folk having the right of common.
- communare: —to enjoy the right of common.
- communaris:-—a fellow-citizen.
- communarius, communiarius:—a commoner.
- commnunes:—commons at a college or Inn of Court.
- communia:—a corporation or community.
- communia (pl.):—commonalty; commons; ordinary business of a court.
- communia:—commons.
- communiare:—to have right of common.