According to common usage, it should be, "O for better times!
But in common usage Imagination is appropriated to creative genius in the Fine Arts, and to speak of Imagination in Science is to suggest that Science deals in fictions, and has discarded Newton's declaration Hypotheses non fingo.
We might be puzzled to give an exact definition of such words, to say precisely what they connote in common usage; but the risk of error in the use of them is small.
We shall see presently that if we wish to make the connotation or concept clear we must run over the denotation or class, that is to say, the objects to which the general name is applied in common usage.
Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
In common usage, the species in general or collectively; a peafowl.
In seeking such a definition we may, so to speak, clip the ragged edge of common usage, but we must not make excision of any considerable portion.
In common usage, the word crime is employed to denote the offenses of a deeper and more atrocious dye, while small faults and omissions of less consequence are comprised under the gentler name of misdemeanors.
An infidel, in common usage, is one who denies Christianity and the truth of the Scriptures.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common usage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
