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unˈhabitable, a. Now rare.
[un-1 7 b and 5 b.]
Uninhabitable. (Common c 1550–1690.)
1382Wyclif Jer. ii. 6 Wher is the Lord, that..ladde vs ouer by desert, by the lond vnhabitable? 1388― Jer. vi. 8 Lest..Y sette thee forsakun, a loond vnhabitable [1382 vndwellable]. a1485Fortescue Wks. (1869) 486 He..made Babyloyne unhabitable. 1527in Hakluyt Voy. (1599) I. 219 The..opinion, that vnder the line Equinoctiall for much heate the land was vnhabitable. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 297 That opinion..touching the vnhabitable clime vnder the poles. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 90 Next vnto this stands Rhodes,..once couered with the sea, or at least an vnhabitable marish. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. ix. 452 The soul of a wicked man becomes a very unhabitable and incommodious place to itself. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. i. v. (1852) 76 They that have made Britain more unhabitable than the Torrid Zone. 1733Swift On Poetry 181 So Geographers in Afric-Maps..o'er unhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns. 1887Spectator 15 Oct. 1381 The whole deep Northern fringe..is unhabitable and uninhabited except by a few savages.
Hence unˈhabitableness.
1661Boyle Physiol. Ess. (1669) 27 The Unhabitableness of the Torrid Zone. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. xxxiv. I. 523 marg., Difficulties touching the Habitableness or Unhabitableness of the Planets. |