† inhabitorinhabitourn.
Obsolete.
An inhabitant, inhabiter.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > [noun]
maneOE
wonnera1340
dwellera1382
livera1382
indweller1382
resiant1405
inhabitor1413
inhabitera1425
tenanta1425
abider1440
citizenc1450
inhabitant1462
resident1463
denizen1474
inhabitator?a1475
mansionarya1475
habitant1490
incolera1513
occupier?1542
land-occupier1576
residentiary1581
burgessa1586
incolant1596
consistorian1599
ledger1600
resider1632
residenter1644
habitator1646
endwellera1649
incolary1652
incolist1657
insetter1712
houser1871
1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) v. i. 72 The enhabitours of the places.
1519 Presentm. Juries in Surtees Misc. (1888) 32 The inhabytors of Selby.
1539 Bible (Great) Jer. xxxiii. 5 The enhabitours of this citie have come to fight against the Chaldees.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 87 Here and there, as it were sprinkled with miserable Inhabitors.
1637 Earl of Monmouth tr. V. Malvezzi Romulus & Tarquin 55 It was not long ere it was replenisht with Inhabitours.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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