单词 | inhabitable |
释义 | † inhabitableadj.1 Obsolete. a. Not habitable, not adapted to human habitation, uninhabitable. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [adjective] > habitable > not undwellablea1382 unhabitablea1382 inhabitablec1400 uninhabitable1448 unhospital1570 unhospitable1612 inhospitable1616 scurrile1632 unreceivable1634 dishabitable1642 disinhabitable1660 untenantablea1661 unliveable1834 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xvii. 78 Beyond Mauritayne..es a grete cuntree, but it es inhabitable by cause of þe owtrage hete of þe sonne. a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) iii. xxix. f. cccxxvi/1 The londe was Inhabytable for the sterylyte & baraynes therof. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 65 Euen to the frozen ridges of the Alpes, Or any other ground inhabitable . View more context for this quotation 1647 J. Trapp Mellificium Theol. in Comm. Epist. & Rev. 697 Archimedes..bragged, that he could number the sand in all the world, habitable and inhabitable. 1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 16 People towards the North, living in a Clime almost inhabitable. 1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. i. iii. 25 Jove has the Realms of Earth in vain Divided by th' inhabitable Main. b. Uninhabited. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [adjective] > not unbiggedc1175 desert1297 void1338 desolatec1374 unhabited1490 inhabitable?1529 disinhabit1530 depopulate1531 uninhabita1540 unpeopled1547 undwelta1557 uninhabited1571 dishabited1577 dispeopled1577 unhabit1580 disinhabited1600 desertful1601 unmanned1609 inhabited1614 peopleless1621 deserted1629 depopulated1632 unhabitated1648 unseated1662 desolated1693 unpopulous1715 unsettled1724 unpopulated1776 bandless1862 populationless1885 unlived-in1927 ?1529 S. Fish Supplicacyon for Beggers sig. A4 These be they that..do let the generation of the people wher by all the realme..shall be made desert and inhabitable. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. E6 In the beginning before the world was impeopled men comming into huge & wast places inhabitable. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Jer. xlviii. 9 Her cities shal be desolate and inhabitable. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [noun] > habitability > not unhabitableness1661 uninhabitableness1669 inhabitability1684 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 266 Nothing seems more remarkable than the inhabitability of the torrid zone, if we consider what a general belief it had amongst the ancients. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). inhabitableadj.2 Capable of being inhabited, occupied, or tenanted. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [adjective] > habitable biglyc1400 habitablea1425 tenantable1542 inhabitable1601 liveable1814 occupiable1814 occupable1853 live-in1955 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 119 Lords of..all the inhabitable places in that vast Archipelago. a1631 J. Donne Lament. Jeremy iv. xii All which live In the inhabitable world. 1654 ‘Palaemon’ Friendship 23 A Soul..inhabitable by a clear and sublime Friendship. 1794 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 85 68 If stars are suns, and suns are inhabitable, we see at once what an extensive field for animation opens itself to our view. 1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) vii. 186 Their new convent was dilapidated, and scarcely inhabitable. Derivatives inˌhabitaˈbility n.2 the quality of being inhabitable. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [noun] > habitability habitableness1653 habitability1715 inhabitability1865 inhabitiveness1896 liveability1922 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 May 11 Professor Whewell publishes his Plurality of Worlds, arguing against their inhabitability. inˈhabitableness n. (Bailey vol. II). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1c1400adj.21601 |
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