单词 | cohabit |
释义 | cohabitv. 1. a. intransitive. To dwell or live together (with). archaic. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > together usec1384 hive1600 cohabit1601 cohabitate1624 co-inhabit1624 roof1636 to move in1850 to live in each other's pockets1934 shack1935 to live together1961 1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 201 A certaine number of schollers to cohabite with the Cannons. 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 333 They were not able to cohabit with that Holy Thing [sc. the Ark]. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. xi. 191 The wise and righteous Generation that we cohabit with and among. 1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. I. vii. 63 All that..do cohabit within this jurisdiction. b. figurative of things. ΚΠ 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 33 I do easily believe that peace, and patience, and a calm content did cohabit in the cheerful heart of Sir Henry Wotton. View more context for this quotation 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 40 In Water the contrary Qualities of Gravity and Levity cohabit together. 1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 214 As if rural Sweetness, and external Elegance and Neatness cohabited there. 2. To live together in a sexual relationship without being married. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [verb (intransitive)] > cohabit to live together1483 adhere1525 cohabitc1530 to live in sin1838 to live (on) tally1864 shack1935 c1530 More in Fisher's Wks. ii. 51 He should..make it a matter of great conscience to cohabit with her, being not his lawfull wife. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 78 in Justice Vindicated The Church..may compel the husband to allow his wife alimony, if without sufficient cause he shall refuse to cohabit with her. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 149. ⁋4 Ordinary Marriages, or rather Bargains to cohabit. 1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 345 In case he should have any child or children by M. A. S. (a woman with whom he cohabited). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > together cohabit1714 live1815 1714 J. Macky Journey through Eng. I. vi. 80 It is plain we are not quite in Heaven here..; a Place co-habited by Innocence and Guilt, by Folly and Fraud from the Beginning. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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