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▪ I. inhabit pa. pple.
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▪ II. inhabit, v.|ɪnˈhæbɪt|
Forms: α. 4–6 enhabit(e, 5 -yte, -ete. β. 4–7 inhabite, 5 -et(t, -ete, 5–6 -yt(e, 6 inabite, 6– inhabit. pa. pple. en-, inhabited; also 4– 7 en-, inhabit, -ite.
[a. OF. enhabiter (12th c. in Godef.) to dwell, dwell in, ad. L. inhabitāre, f. in- (in-2) + habitāre to dwell: see habit v.]
1. trans. To dwell in, occupy as an abode; to live permanently or habitually in (a region, element, etc.); to reside in (a country, town, dwelling, etc.). Said of men and animals.
αc1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. pr. vii. 44 (Camb. MS.) The ferthe partye ys enhabited with lyuynge bestys þat we knowen. c1400Destr. Troy 101 An yle enabit..With a maner of men, mermydons callid. c1477Caxton Jason 63 b, This cite is enhabited with women without king. c15111st Eng. Bk. Amer. (Arb.) Introd. 28/1 That other yland is not enhabite.
β1390Gower Conf. I. 324 The citee..Of worthy folk..Was inhabited here and there. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) vii. 23 The land of [Egipte] es lang, bot it es narowe: for men may noȝt inhabit it on brede for desertes. 1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 174 London..is inhabited with men of everye facultie. 1611Bible Isa. lxv. 21 They shall build houses, and inhabit them. 1797T. Bewick Brit. Birds (1847) I. 26 This bird inhabits all the northern parts of Europe. 1881Athenæum No. 2777. 97 The pelagie fishes, or those which inhabit the mid ocean.
b. transf. (of inanimate things), and fig.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 26 b, More perfyte religyons, whiche be to the seruauntes of god that inhabyte them, as the arke of Noe. 1611Bible Isa. lvii. 15 The High and loftie One that inhabiteth eternitie. 1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. 1 Those charms, which in spight of fortunes cruelties, did yet inhabit his face. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. xi. (1860) 246 The same echo inhabited the valley.
2. intr. To dwell, live; to have one's abode; to abide, lodge. arch.
αc1374Chaucer Boeth. i. pr. v. 15 (Camb. MS.) Who so þat leteth the wyl for to enhabyte there. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. x. 188 Eremites þat en-habiten by þe heye weyes. c1440Gesta Rom. i. xxvii. 102 (Harl. MS.) This knight enhabitid in a woode. 1537Act 27 Hen. VIII in Bolton Stat. Irel. (1621) 175 Every person and persons enhabiting within this land.
βa1400–50Alexander 4020 An Ile, Quare þir Exidraces as Ermets inhabet in caues. 1598W. Phillips Linschoten (1864) 170 In all places of India where the Portugals inabite. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 355 Thither let us bend all our thoughts, to learn What creatures there inhabit. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 511 The Senecas inhabit on the Chenesee or Genessee river. 1871Browning Pr. Hohenst. 1716 But, till notice sound, Inhabit we in ease and opulence!
b. transf. and fig. To dwell, abide.
1382Wyclif Col. i. 19 In hym it pleside to gidere al plente for to inhabite. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. lxxxviii. (1869) 50 The hous is..lasse than the good that enhabiteth ther inne. c1580Sidney Ps. xxxiv. i, In my mouth contynually Inhabit shall his praise. a1619Fletcher Mad Lover iii. iv, Her ey inhabits on him. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. ix. 53 See, on the Shoar inhabits purple Spring. 1824Westm. Rev. I. 4 It dignifies every thought that inhabits with it.
†3. trans. To occupy or people (a place). Obs.
1390Gower Conf. III. 278 Nations seventy and two, In sondry place eche one of tho [nations] The wide world have enhabited. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy (1555) i. i, Thus gan he praye..His lande tenhabite which standeth desolate. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 43 The Iberians..dwelt neare to Meotis: certaine Colonies of them inhabited Spaine, and called it Hiberia. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxiv. 131 ‘Plantations’, or ‘colonies’, which are numbers of men sent out..to inhabit a Forraign Country..void of inhabitants.
†b. To people with, to furnish with (inhabitants). Obs.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xii. 52 Þis castell gert Bawdewyne make.. and inhabited it with Cristen men. 1515in St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 11 He dyd conquyre all the lande,..and dyd inhabyte the same with Englyshe folke. 1579–80North Plutarch (1895) III. 336 Cities..which afterwardes they did inhabite with their owne citizens.
†4. To establish or settle (a person, etc.) in a place, to furnish with a habitation; to locate, house; refl. to establish oneself, take up one's abode; pass., to be domiciled or resident.
1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxxiv. 8 Suche as ben enheryted and enhabyted in the same Countre. 1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) ii. 186 b/1 He..yede his waye to enhabyte him selfe in the deserte within a caue. 1494Fabyan Chron. vi. clv. 143 He after inhabyted them in dyuerse placis of his realme. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xviii. liii. (W. de W.) 812 Amptes..make hepys and hylles in whom they enhabyte themself in. 1496Act 12 Hen. VII, c. 6 The Merchauntes Adventurers inhabite and dwelling in divers parties of this Realme of Englond. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 158 Many of the Citizens..voyded the Citie,..and inhabited themselves in diverse places of the realme. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. iii. 10 O knowledge ill inhabited, worse then Ioue in a thatch'd house!
†b. intr. (for refl.) To take up one's abode, settle. Obs.
1548Hall Chron., Hen. V 36 After whiche victory certaine souldiers..passed over the water of Sala and there inhabited, betwene the rivers. 1588Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China i. iii. (Hakluyt Soc.) I. 12 Perswaded..that those which did first finde and inhabite in this lande, were the nevewes of Noe.
†c. fig. (in pa. pple. = (?) Established, located, allotted; addicted, devoted). Obs.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 415 (443) She þat I serue,..To whom myn herte enhabit [v.r. enabitid] is by right, Shal han me holly hires til þat I dye.
Hence inˈhabiting ppl. a., indwelling.
a1617Bayne On Coloss. i. & ii. (1634) 258 Now the inhabiting and the inhabited are not confounded. 1844W. H. Mill Serm. Tempt. Christ ii. 42 To restore this inhabiting Presence to Man. |