[f. COMMONPLACE v. + -ER1.] One who or that which commonplaces; † a. a commonplace-book: b. a person who keeps one.
a. 1631. Donne, Serm., lv. 557. Such ragges and fragments of those Fathers as were patcht together in their Decretats and Decretals and other such Commonplacers.
1643. Milton, Divorce, Introd. (1851), 10. The narrow intellectuals of quotationists and common placers.
1830. Fraser’s Mag., II. 184. A common-placer of his jests.
