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a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) VII. 9 One of the Richards..browght the foresayde Monks agayne to Stratford, where amonge the Marsches they reinhabytyd.

a1638 J. Mede Treat. Daniel's Weeks in Wks. (1672) 700 A Commission to cause the people to return and re-inhabite.

1736 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde I. 504 They might be able to subsist and re-inhabit in the said kingdom.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iv. 219 After which time it was reinhabited by certaine people of Granada.

1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. iii. 130 Towns and Citties were not reinhabited but lay ruin'd and wast.

1720 S. Clark Coll. Promises Script. Introd. p. xxxviii Jerusalem shall be rebuilt and reinhabited by them [sc. the Jews].

1796 J. Gale Gale's Cabinet of Knowl. 17 Some few other globes put into new form and motion, reinstating and reinhabiting them, from the ruins of the old world.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 297 The individual Soul, which cannot..return to re-inhabit..the Body.

1876 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 4 397 Among the ancient Egyptians, the opinion was entertained that after the lapse of several thousand years, their souls would come to reinhabit their bodies.

1923 Times 30 Jan. 9/1 As things seem quieter the villages and suburbs, to which till now people feared to go back, are being by degrees reinhabited.

1962 J. Godfrey Church in Anglo-Saxon Eng. xxiv. 435 They gathered disciples together, and reinhabited the ruined monasteries of Jarrow and Wearmouth.

2005 A. L. Peterson Seeds of Kingdom 12 As civil war raged, people who had fled the combat zones by the thousands returned to reinhabit and rebuild their communities.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. viii. 499 Elmahdi, an hereticall Calipha, who procured the reinhabiting hereof.

1758 E. Spelman tr. Dionysius of Halicarnassus Rom. Antiq. I. i. 168 As to the last reinhabiting, or building of the city..Timaeus..places it at the same time with the building of Carthage.

1868 J. P. Prendergast Cromwellian Settlement Irel. iii. 167 Of the re-inhabiting of the towns by new English.

1936 Harvard Theol. Rev. 29 272 The reinhabiting of the ruins of the monasteries of Cassiodore by Greek monks.

2007 S. M. Taylor Green Sisters viii. 242 The imagery in the Earth Meditation Trail is varied and complex, and in it we see a reinhabiting of traditional Roman Catholic frameworks to reflect ‘green’ content.