a Latin term, in frequent use among philosophical, &c., writers; implying some medium, or mean relation, between several places. Dr Keil supposes the ocean to be one quarter of a mile deep, communibus locis, q.d. at a medium, or taking one place with another.

Communibus anni, has the same import with regard to years, that communibus locis has with regard to places. Mr Derham observes that the depth of rain, communibus anni, or one year with another, were it to stagnate on the earth, would amount in Townley in Lancashire, to 42½ inches; at Upminster in Essex, to 19½; at Zurich, 32½; at Pisa, 43½; and at Paris to 19 inches.