His plan was to take a common name, profess ignorance of its meaning, and ask his interlocutor whether he would apply it in such and such an instance, producing one after another.
A common name is certainly wanted in that connexion, if only to say that Opposition (in the limited or diagrammatic sense) does not mean incompatibility.
The attribute, or attributes, may therefore be said to denominate those objects, or to give them a common name.
A common name given to shells of the genus Pholas, on account of their cylindrical form and consequent resemblance to the fruit.
A common name given to shells of the genus Chiton, on account of their resemblance to jointed armour.
A common name by which shells of the genus Solen, are known in the market.
Bull bay is a common name for it in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.
A common name is simply laurel, but that does not distinguish it from the great laurel which is often associated with it.
This was a common name in years gone by for scrofula, because the sovereigns of England were supposed to possess the power of curing it, "without other medicine, save only by handling and prayer.
He looked for a common nature, where there is only a common name.
It is because things resemble each other in certain of their attributes that we call them by a common name, and this resemblance could not be ascertained except by comparison, at some time and by some one.
It may be defined as the statement of the various classes of things that can be called by a common name.
All these inferences agree in the essential feature of combining permutation with conversion, and should therefore be classed under a common name.
Again, the name of Julius Cæsar, who was the first imperial governor of Rome, though he was never called emperor, has given us a common name.
Gabriel is a common name in Italy, as is also another angel's name, Raphael.
Chapman, a common name now, was the Old English word for a general dealer.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common name" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
