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inhabitation|ɪnˌhæbɪˈteɪʃən|
Also 6 en-.
[ad. late L. inhabitātiōn-em, n. of action f. inhabitāre to inhabit. Cf. AF. enhabitacion (1483–4 in Godef.).]
1. The action of inhabiting; the fact or condition of being or becoming inhabited.
c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. (E.E.T.S.) 62 Þurgh trew affiance dwellys folk togedre, and þerby ys inhabitacioun in citeez, comunynge to-gedre of ffolke. 1517Domesday Inclos. I. 221 A tenement..ys decayd and fallen down, and non Inabytacyon on yt this xviii yers. 1568Grafton Chron. I. 32 The Originall names, and the first inhabitation of this Realme. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 185 By the daily increase of people, the countrey be even pestered with inhabitation. 1773Observ. State Poor 74 Inhabitation for three years, or three months, or three days..will be equally valid for the creation of a parishioner. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. (1804) 299 Qualifying the animal for that mode of life and inhabitation, to which the structure of its eye confines it. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. IV. v. xix. §31 A pauper or two still inhabiting where inhabitation is possible.
b. fig. Spiritual indwelling.
1615Byfield Expos. Coloss. (1869) 10 The effects or fruits of it..are: 1. The inhabitation of Christ. 1618E. Elton Exp. Rom. vii. (1622) 351 Gods children..are not freed from the inhabitation of sinne. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. 91 The Greek Fathers terme efficacious Grace and our Dependence thereon..the inhabitation of the Holy Spirit. 1841Myers Cath. Th. xxix. 71 The general inhabitation of the Christian Body by the Christian Spirit.
†2. A place of dwelling; an inhabited region or building; an abode, dwelling. Obs.
c1400Chron. Eng. lxxv. in Herrig Archiv. LII. 16 His one foote shall be sette in wike and that othir in london and he shall embrace iij inhabitacouns. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xiv. ii. (W. de W.) 465 The erthe is enhabytacion of bodyes that haue lyf. 1515Act 7 Hen. VIII, c. 1 Tythyng houses and other enhabitacyons in any paryshe. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 209 Cusistan the inhabitation of the Susiani. 1639Sir W. Barclay Lost Lady i. ii. in Hazl. Dodsley XII. 572 When you her know, you will believe, That virtue chose that dark inhabitation.
†3. A collection of inhabitants; inhabitants collectively; population; settlement. Obs. rare.
(Some understand Milton's use as = Gr. οἰκουµένη the inhabited earth, the world.)
1588R. Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 329 They came vnto a great inhabitation of Indians. 1671Milton Samson 1512 Noise call it you, or universal groan, As if the whole inhabitation perished? 1818Blackw. Mag. IV. 328 A Craniopolis like the catacombs, containing so enormous an ‘inhabitation’, that no regular census has ever been made. |