commutual

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

His danseuse might unquestionably have addressed her husband, who sat at no great distance from us, drawing up his gouty feet under his chair to let her pass, in these touching words:— "Full thirty times hath Phœbus' cart gone round Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground, And thirty dozen moons, with borrow'd sheen, About the world have times twelve thirties been, Since Love our hearts and Hymen did our hands Unite commutual in most sacred bands."

From Project Gutenberg

There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love: Brothers in peace, not rivals in command.

From Project Gutenberg

It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really commutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they ceased their fratricidal strife and, uniting their mighty forces under the flag of Progress, completed the conquest of the world and doomed Poverty, Ignorance and Vice—hell's great triumvirate—to banishment eternal.

From Project Gutenberg

Adj. reciprocal, mutual, commutual†, correlative, reciprocative, interrelated, closely related; alternate; interchangeable; interdependent; international; complemental, complementary.

From Project Gutenberg

Long as the morning beams, increasing bright, O'er heaven's clear azure spread the sacred light, Commutual death the fate of war confounds, Each adverse battle gored with equal wounds.

From Project Gutenberg