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commorant, a. and n. Obs. exc. as prec.|ˈkɒmərənt|
Also 6–7 comorant(e.
[ad. L. commorāntem, pr. pple. of commorā-ri to tarry, abide, f. com- + morāri to delay, tarry, f. mora delay.]
A. adj. Abiding, dwelling, resident.
Formerly applied technically, at Cambridge, to members of the Senate resident in the town (commorantes in villa) who were no longer members of their colleges: this became obsolete with the Act of 1856, which abolished the qualification of residence.
a1556Cranmer Wks. II. 277 If Davison be dwelling or commorant within my jurisdiction. 1606N. B. Sidney's Ourania M iij b, If any on the earth were commorant. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. (1611) xx. 163 [Fowls] commorant in Woods, Forests, Heaths, etc. 1726Ayliffe Parerg. 407 Unless they have been commorant there for ten Years. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 270 All freeholders within the precinct..and all persons commorant therein; which commorancy consists in usually lying there. 1888Daily Tel. 22 Mar. 7/2 An Irishman..‘commorant’ in Edinburgh.
†b. Of water: Standing, not running away.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. v. 10 Water Appropriate is either Commorant, viz. confined within the plot, or Current, not terminated within the limits thereof.
B. n. A dweller, sojourner, resident.
(Also as in note to A.)
a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1692) 10 Rabbi Jacob, a Jew born, whom I remember for a long time a Commorant in the University. Ibid. i. 32 In all my time that I was a Commorant in Cambridge. |