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a1450 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Douce 295) (1976) i. 175 (note) [a1500 Hunterian For oftyntymes manys body..changyth aftir þe disposicoun of þe eyr and of] hys abydyng place.

?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxviii. sig. Ij A B C are the markes in the fielde to be measured, D the first abyding or standing place.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) x. f. 124 And though wee lingring for a whyle our pageants doo prolong, Yit soone or late wee all too one abyding place [L. sedem..ad unam] doo rome.

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xxi. 195 I being now well strengthened made no stay in that frigat, which I thought would have been my last abiding place in this world.

1767 tr. D. Cranz Hist. Greenland II. ix. 274 They that were born on the sea-coast, or on an island, do not chuse their abiding-place on the main land.

1794 R. Cumberland Jew i. i. 6 We have no abiding place on earth, no country, no home.

1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. i. 191 Here had the Chief Chosen his abiding place.

1879 E. Dowden Southey iii. 52 But his heart needed an abiding-place.

1927 A. C. Parker Indian How Bk. vii. lxii. 281 He found meat and drink and a pleasant abiding place.

2002 Agric. Hist. 76 519 Paramount was the National Council's constitutional obligation to control land monopoly and secure an abiding place for all citizens.