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habitable, a.|ˈhæbɪtəb(ə)l|
Also 4 abitable.
[a. F. habitable (14th c. in Littré), ad. L. habitābilis, f. habitāre to inhabit: see -able.]
1. Suitable for habitation or as a human abode; fit to live in, inhabitable; also absol. the habitable globe (cf. Gr. οἰκουµένη).
1388Wyclif Exod. xvi. 35 Til thei camen in to the lond abitable. 1490Caxton Eneydos xvi. 62 We haue gyuen her londe habytable. 1555Eden Decades Contents, The description of the north regions: and howe they are habitable. 1660Hickeringill Jamaica (1661) 3 That vulgar division of the World into Zones habitable..and inhabitable. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 157 A glimps of Light, conveyd so farr Down to this habitable. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. 195 The habitable part of the building. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xi, A couple of rooms..which some kind of attempt had been made to render habitable.
†2. Able or ready to dwell. Obs. rare.
1654tr. Scudery's Curia Pol. 68 All the virtues are as habitable, and as content to dwell with the meanest Subject as the mightiest Monarch.
Hence ˈhabitableness, the quality of being habitable; fitness for habitation. ˈhabitably adv., in a habitable manner.
1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 13 In respect of its habitableness it is as rightly termed an Earth. a1691Boyle Hist. Air (1692) 78 To prove not only the habitableness, but healthfulness of that climate and country. 1828Webster cites Forsyth for Habitably. 1843Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 239 The public rooms are in a state of perfect habitableness again. |