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单词 inhabitable
释义

inhabitableadj.1

Etymology: < French inhabitable (1372 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), < Latin inhabitābilis , < in- (in- prefix4) + habitābilis habitable adj.
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.

Derivatives

inˌhabitaˈbility n.1 Obsolete the quality of being uninhabitable.
ΘΚΠ
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

/ɪnˈhabɪtəb(ə)l/
Etymology: < inhabit v. + -able suffix: compare late Latin inhabitābilis (Arnob.).
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.
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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).
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