Conclave vs Commune - What's the difference?
conclave | commune |
The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.
The group of Roman Catholic cardinals locked in a conclave until they elect a new pope; the body of cardinals.
* (Robert South)
A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.
* (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.
A local political division in many European countries.
(obsolete) The commonalty; the common people.
(obsolete) communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends
* Tennyson
To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
* Shakespeare
To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
To receive the communion.
* Bishop Burnet
As nouns the difference between conclave and commune
is that conclave is conclave while commune is a small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.As a verb commune is
to converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.conclave
English
Noun
(en noun)- It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal.
- The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London.
Derived terms
* in conclave: engaged in a secret meeting; said of a group of people.commune
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) commune, in turn deriving from Latin.Noun
(wikipedia commune) (en noun)- (Chaucer)
- For days of happy commune dead.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(commun)- I would commune with you of such things / That want no ear but yours.
- He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature.
- To commune under both kinds.
