residencen.¹

Brit.

/ˈrɛzᵻd(ə)ns/, U.S.

/ˈrɛz(ə)d(ə)ns/

Forms: Middle English residens, Middle English resydennce, Middle English–1500s resydence, Middle English–1500s resydens, Middle English–1600s residense, Middle English– residence, 1500s resedence, 1500s–1600s recidens; Scottish pre-1700 rasidens, pre-1700 reasidence, pre-1700 recedence, pre-1700 recidence, pre-1700 recidens, pre-1700 recydence, pre-1700 resedence, pre-1700 resedens, pre-1700 residens, pre-1700 resydence, pre-1700 resydens, pre-1700 1700s– residence.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French residence.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French residence, Middle French residense, residance (French résidence ) obligation of an ecclesiastic to reside (c1255 in Anglo-Norman), dwelling place, abode (1283 in Old French), action of residing (1375 or earlier), place, position (late 14th cent. or earlier), delay (see without residence at Phrases 3) < post-classical Latin residentia stay, abode (9th cent.), settled place of abode (from 12th cent. in British and continental sources), obligation of an ecclesiastic to reside (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources), state of being a resident (13th cent.), right of staying, abiding (in realm) (13th cent. in a British source), obligation of an academic to reside (1400, c1556 in British sources) < classical Latin resident- , residēns , present participle of residēre reside v.¹ + -ia -ia suffix¹; compare -ence suffix. Compare Old Occitan residensa , Catalan residència (14th cent.), Spanish residencia (end of the 13th cent.), Portuguese residência (15th cent.), Italian residenza (a1363); also Middle Dutch residentie (Dutch residentie ), and ( < French) German Residenz (17th cent., originally and chiefly in sense ‘princely or royal palace’). Compare earlier resident adj. and later reside v.¹In sense 4d after Dutch residentie administrative division in the Dutch East Indies (1808; earlier in sense ‘trading post of the Dutch East India Company, including the surrounding territory’ (1626); compare sense 4e). In sense 4f after Russian rezidentura residentura n. Compare residency n. 5 and resident n.¹ 4.

1. The fact of living or staying regularly at or in a specified place for the performance of official duties, for work, or to comply with regulations; (also) the period during which such a stay is required of one. Cf. in residence at Phrases 5, to make (one's) residence at Phrases 2.

a. Christian Church. With reference to the presence of incumbents in their benefices, canons in their cathedrals, etc. Also figurative. Cf. non-residence n. 1a. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > to fulfil requirements > specifically ecclesiastical

residencec1400

residency?1567

c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 493 (MED) No persone ne vicare ne prelate is excusud fro personele residense to be made in þer beneficys.

c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 815 (MED) Avaunsyd persownys holde residence Among ther parysshens.

a1500 (?c1378) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 424 (MED) Many curatis..wenen þat þei ben not holdun to residense bi leeue of þe pope or of þer bischop.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxxviii For lack of residence..al the parishioners lacked preaching.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1664/2 He departed from Lichefield to a benefice in Leycester shyre,..wherupon he keepyng residence, taught diligently.

1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 105 With the Spanish Divines he holdeth residence de jure divino, but if they erred in anything it was about personall residence.

1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times v. vii. 210 It were Liberty enough, if for the next seaven yeeres, all Sermons were bound to keepe Residence on this Text: Brethren Love one another.

1699 Gale Let. in S. Pepys Mem. (1828) V. 255 My residence determines tomorrow, because my last sermon could not be made till then, though the eating residence terminated a few days ago.

1706 J. Johnson Clergy-man's Vade Mecum x. 79 Only a Prebendary..strictly obliged to perpetual Residence, was not by the Canon Law permitted to hold any Benefice with Cure, without a Dispensation.

1803 S. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 48 As exceptions to the general and indisputable principle of residence.

1903 T. C. Peter Hist. Glasney Collegiate Church 20 The sacristan of Glasney and his successors, being canons and in perpetual residence, were to make distribution yearly out of the fruits of the said church.

1996 P. Mussett in N. Yates & P. A. Welsby Faith & Fabric iv. 94 Regulations for securing the constant residence of members of the chapter.

b. In other connections, as with reference to colleges or universities, electoral rights, civil status, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > for teaching or influence

residence1608

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > to fulfil requirements

residence1868

1608 H. Youll Canzonets 3 Voyces i. Ded. sig. Aij Your place of residence is now in one and the same Vniuersitie.

1661 J. Fell Life Thomas Fuller 4 During his residence in this Colledge a Fellowship was vacant, for which the Doctor became Candidate,..besides the desire of the whole house.

1797 Monthly Mag. 3 266/1 During my residence at the university, and a constant intercourse with both reading and non-reading men [etc.].

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. viii. 275 The connection between the scholar and the school did not terminate with his residence.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation iv. 109 The head is usually bound to residence during term.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation v. 315 The ‘residence’ of an undergraduate student is now considered to be 168 days out of 365.

1896 Academy 18 Jan. 56/1 At Oxford residence will not be resumed until the end of next week.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 849/1 If the purchaser farmed the land himself and made satisfactory progress, the period of obligatory residence was reduced to five years.

1991 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 20 Dec. a1/3 The federal government is killing a program that allows foreign nationals—most of them nannies—to apply for permanent residence after living in Canada for at least two years.

a. The circumstance or fact of having one's permanent or usual dwelling place or home in or at a certain place; the fact of residing or being resident. Also in extended use.Recorded earliest in to have (also †hold, keep, make) one's residence at Phrases 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun]

wonningc960

bewistc1200

livingc1350

lodging1362

habitationc1374

indwellinga1382

dwellingc1384

inhabitinga1400

bidingc1400

inhabitationc1400

residencec1405

mansiona1425

winningc1425

demur1444

abodec1450

resianty1467

demurrance1509

resiance1566

place-being1567

residency1579

resiancy1580

commorancy1586

residing1587

inhabitance1588

abodement1592

commorance1594

habit1603

commoration1623

inwoning1647

inhabitancy1681

habitancy1792

domicile1835

occupying1849

abidal1850

tenancy1856

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) G. §3. l. 660 In hernes and in lanes blynde..thise robbours..Holden hir pryuee fereful residence.

1480–1 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 315 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 No manere freman..shall dwell..without the citie by no contynuell resydennce.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 60 Men makis in court thair solistationes:..Sum be continvall residence.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 331 How chances it they trauaile? their residence both in reputation, and profit was better both wayes.

1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 479 Then they were glad to invite our Merchant's Residence with what privileges they would desire.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 69 Those Parts..had been formerly in the Possession of the Sea, and the place of its natural Residence.

1714 R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. (ed. 2) II. 341 There was one special and standing monument of his residence among them.

1790 A. J. Dallas Rep. Cases Pennsylvania 1 243 There is an essential difference between residence and abiding in a particular place.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 43 The marine shells..demonstrate the former residence of the sea upon the mountains.

1860 T. D. Woolsey Introd. Internat. Law (1879) iv. 132 Ambassadors in ancient times were sent on special occasions by one nation to another. Their residence at foreign courts is a practice of modern growth.

1883 Cent. Mag. Oct. 858/1 The next center of fashionable residence was Blucker street.

1904 W. Dennison in H. A. Sanders Rom. Hist. Sources & Instit. 45 The surname Capitolinus would indicate residence on the Capitol, but the Montani were perhaps residents of the Palatine.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1031/2 The aim in Victorian times seems to have been to make admission to the Casual Ward..an even more humiliating experience than residence in the Workhouse.

1995 P. Conroy Beach Music (1996) xxiv. 402 From the very first days of his residence in Waterford, Max had always sent money back to his family in Europe.

b. Cultural Anthropology. The fact of settling in a particular place after marriage, according to the prevailing kinship system. Cf. matrilocal adj., neolocal adj., etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun] > place of settlement after marriage

residence1865

marital home1910

1865 J. F. McLennan Primitive Marriage viii. 154 Teadhloch and cuedichc.., Gaelic names for family, mean the first having a common residence; the second those who eat together.

1889 E. B. Tylor in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 18 247 Now, on looking out from the schedules the adhesions of this avoidance-custom, a relation appears between it and the customs of the world as to residence after marriage.

1924 W. H. Rivers Social Organisation v. 90 The last aspect of father-right and mother-right to be mentioned..is one with which perhaps I ought to have dealt in the second chapter, namely, the place of residence in case of marriage.

1968 C. Jacobson tr. C. Lévi-Strauss Struct. Anthropol. xv. 309 The impact of residence on descent.

1992 J. Silverberg & J. P. Gray Aggression & Peacefulness 193 Residence is ambilocal, and residence units vary from single households scattered over a band's territory to hamlets where the entire band resides.

†3. Continuance in some course or action. with residence: continuously, insistently. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > continuing > [noun]

continuationc1374

residence?c1450

continuance1530

countenance1592

pursuance1601

continualness1611

ongoing1637

continuando1672

continuing1691

continuality1805

ongoingness1932

the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > [adverb] > insistently

with residence?c1450

instantly1477

insistently1873

insistingly1880

?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 862 (MED) In þe bischope presence Þus cuthbert prayed with residence.

c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Order of Fools (Laud) in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 449 (MED) Cheef of alle folys..Able in his foly to holde resydence Is he that nouther loveth God nor dredith.

a1500 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 761 (MED) Hasty ffrutus haue no longe resydens; Ryght feyre outward, þe coore doth putrifye.

a1602 W. Perkins Cases of Consc. (1619) 23 Men are not simply condemned for their particular sinnes, but for their continuance and residence in them.

1609 C. Tourneur Funerall Poeme sig. B2^v And in the due performance of her Lawes, His fauours had their constant residence.

a1653 H. Binning Sinners Sanctuary (1670) xxvi. 197 The constant and most continued residence of the most serious thoughts and affections.

a. The place where a person resides; the dwelling place or home of a person (esp. one of some rank or distinction). Also in extended use. (of) no fixed residence = (of) no fixed abode at abode n.¹ Phrases 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > [noun]

earneOE

wickc900

bottleeOE

innOE

boldOE

wonningc1000

wanea1225

wonea1250

bidea1300

dwelling1340

habitaculec1374

habitaclec1384

habitationc1384

mansionc1385

placea1387

manantie?a1400

dungeonc1460

longhousec1460

folda1500

residencea1522

abode1549

bield1570

lodgement1598

bidinga1600

sit-house1743

location1795

wigwam1817

address1855

yard1865

res1882

nivas1914

multifamily1952

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > travelling from place to place [phrase] > wandering > of no fixed abode

no fixed abode1582

(of) no fixed residence1859

1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 214 Quhen that the ravyns sal ryve out bath thine ene And on the rattis salbe thy residence.]

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. x. 109 In soft bene medowis..Our habitatioun is and residens.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 120 Chasing the royall bloud With furie from his natiue residence .

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 429 The vpper Region or the Head wherein the soule hath her Residence of estate, guarded by the Sences.

1637 J. Milton Comus 32 Not many furlongs thence Is your Fathers residence.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 346 Understand the same Of Fish within thir watry residence .

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 251 Caprea..a Place that had been the Retirement of Augustus for some time, and the Residence of Tiberius for several Years.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxi. 199 One thousand seven hundred and eighty houses, the residence of wealthy and honourable citizens.

1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. 515 Yellow-Poll. Rather less than the Pettichaps:..This species is found in America,..but its chief residence is in Guiana.

1859 Times 1 Feb. 9/5 Robert Murry, 35, and Johanna Murry, 28, described as husband and wife, and travelling ventriloquists of no fixed residence, were charged with attacking and robbing Robert Hobbs on the highway of a purse containing a 5l. Bank of England note.

1863 E. V. Neale Analogy Thought & Nature 196 The regulative will, or soul,..has no special residence within the brain.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 513 Every dangerous place in West Africa is regarded as the residence of a god.

1929 D. Hammett Red Harvest vii. 71 He phoned the old man's residence to find out if the check was on the up-and-up.

1936 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 31 720 Inhabitants of caravans and of ships, and vagabonds, as far as they have no fixed residence, are also entered on individual cards.

1992 Pioneer on Sunday (Delhi) 13 Sept. 1/5 The doyen of the Jaipur Atrauli gharana of Hindustani classical music, Pandit Mallikarjun Mansoor is no more. He died at his residence.

2003 Family Circle 13 May 62/2 Estate by entireties deed..is a special deed that protects your residence if your spouse is sued.

b. A dwelling, a house, esp. an impressive, official, or superior one; a mansion. Cf. private residence n. at private adj.¹, adv., and n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > large or palatial

palacec1300

dome1553

residencea1616

great house1623

mansion house1651

palazzo1657

châteauc1739

mansion1815

palacio1839

haveli1871

puri1935

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 12 It deserues..A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Westmorl. 140 Anne Clyfford..because having her greatest Residence and Estate in the North, is properly referrable to this County.

a1725 A. Nisbet Syst. Heraldry (1742) II. iv. xvi. 171 Rothsay has his Name and Title from the Castle of Rothsay,..an antient Residence of our Scots Kings in the Isle of Bute.

1785 W. Cowper Task v. 157 Nor wanted aught within, That royal residence might well befit, For grandeur or for use.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. i. 5 Considerable additions were necessary to make it a comfortable family residence.

1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. viii. 365 A residence was assigned him at Bithur.

1857 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 198 His love of display a passion, his airs nabobish, his residence palatial.

1922 Times 4 May 27 (advt.) Residence; four bed, two reception, bath; tennis, orchard, paddocks, four acres; peachery.

1932 B. Segale At End of Sante Fe Trail iii. xvi. 315 All went pell-mell to the front of the Mayor's residence.

1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl i. 17 The Israeli Ambassador's residence, three streets away, was protected round the clock.

2005 W. Wall This is Country 18 He moved out there so his wife and kids would be safe. Doing the quiet business from a desirable residence in the suburbs.

c. Chiefly North American. In universities and colleges: a building providing accommodation for students; a residence hall, a dormitory.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > students' residence

hospital1536

hostel1536

pensionary1583

inn1655

hotel1748

residence1828

bursa1831

residence hall1857

dormitory1865

hall1879

hospice1895

hospitium1895

1828 Amer. Ann. Educ. 3 514 No female was permitted to reside within the circle of the student's [sic] residences.

1842 Lancet 15 Jan. 537/1 If a college residence be thus provided for the students, it is obvious that a system of regular discipline in regard to hours of admission at the gates must be adopted.

1921 Jrnl. Amer. Assoc. Univ. Women 15 106/2 The site of a college residence should be carefully chosen with reference to healthful and inspirational living.

1939 Outspan (S. Afr.) 27 Oct. 49 That little lawn in front of Men's Residence at ‘Wits’ [University] is a place for crazy ideas.

1954 College Admissions 1 123/2 We are now struggling with 430 women in our freshman class, some 50 over the maximum we can house in our freshman residences.

1988 Weekend Argus (Cape Town) 19 Mar. 12 [The] Matie SRC chairman..said the move to open all residences was a positive step forward.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Sept. ii. 103/1 This new graduate student residence for Harvard is a distinctive example of progressive contextualism: familiar elements like brickwork..are embraced by contemporary design.

†d. An administrative division in the Dutch East Indies; = residency n. 3. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > in Dutch East Indies

residency1814

residence1889

1889 Dublin Rev. Jan. 166 The inhabitants dress differently in this residence from what they do in other parts of Java.

†e. Apparently: a trading post. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town, village, or collection of dwellings > [noun] > for trading purposes

post1789

outpost1802

residence1890

wood post1904

1890 C. Gross Gild Merchant I. 156 In 1687 one of the principal ‘residences’ or marts of the Company [of Merchant Adventurers trading to the Low Countries] was at Hamburgh.

f. A group or organization of intelligence agents in a foreign country; = residency n. 5. Cf. resident n.¹ 4. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > political police > [noun] > secret service agent > in a foreign country > group of

residency1959

residentura1963

rezidentsia1968

residence1969

1969 H. H. Cooper Cave with Two Exits i. 69 In Rome he was met by a young man from the Residence... The Resident himself..was extremely secure... His cover was strictly diplomatic.

5. The time during which a person resides in or at a place; a period of residing, a stay.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > period of

residency1579

home-sitting1601

residence1611

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [noun] > time of

stay1538

residence1611

sojourning1611

residence time1868

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Consistence, a consistence, or being; a residence, or setling.

1676 in Fasti Aberd. (1854) 347 The sexennial residence of the regents and masters of philosophie in the colledges.

1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 378 During a residence [Fr. séjour] of four months that I stay'd at Court.

1740 S. Johnson Drake in Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 510 Being obliged by this Accident to somewhat a longer Residence among the Moors.

1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph (Dublin ed.) II. 231 My long residence in a warmer climate.

1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal cli There was no representation during my residence.

1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. 67 The Jews lost..their spoken language..during their comparatively short residence in Babylon.

1857 Gen. Nicholson in S. Smiles Charac. (1876) iii. 73 I was always the better for a residence with him and his wife.

1871 A. J. C. Hare Walks in Rome I. Introd. 11 It must not..be supposed that one short residence at Rome will be sufficient to make a foreigner acquainted with all its varied treasures.

1902 G. S. Whitmore Last Maori War ix. 149 Those whose long residence entitles them to rank as experts.

1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) x. 239 For long stretches during her ten-year residence in Persia Elizabeth saw no other European woman but her children's nurse.

6. figurative. A seat of power, a particular quality, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute > residence or seat of a power or quality

seat1390

chair1509

residence1642

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 36 To call that inviolable residence of justice and liberty, by such an odious name.

1781 W. Cowper Truth 387 The blest residence of truth divine.

1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 218 The free cities of Italy; the very early residences of trade and manufactures.

1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon VI. ix. 256 The residence of the supreme authority..the Supreme Junta.

1920 J. M. Murry Aspects of Lit. 132 Between belief and logic lies..the kingdom of art, no less the residence of truth than the two other realms.

1996 J. Goldthwaite Nat. Hist. Make-believe v. 208 In rejecting the world as the proper residence of grace, these tales are all of them escapist mechanisms.

Phrases

P1.

a. to have (also †hold, keep, make) one's residence: to have one's usual dwelling place or home; to reside. Also in extended use. [Compare Middle French faire sa residence, tenir sa residence (both a1467 or earlier).]

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)]

wonc725

erdec893

siteOE

liveeOE

to make one's woningc960

through-wonOE

bigc1175

walkc1225

inwonea1300

lenda1300

lenga1300

lingera1300

erthec1300

stallc1315

lasta1325

lodge1362

habit?a1366

breeda1375

inhabitc1374

indwella1382

to have one's mansionc1385

to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400

keepc1400

repairc1400

to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405

to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425

winc1425

to make (one's) residence1433

resort1453

abidec1475

use1488

remaina1500

demur1523

to keep one's house1523

occupy1523

reside1523

enerdc1540

kennel1552

bower1596

to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597

subsist1618

mansiona1638

tenant1650

fastena1657

hospitate1681

wont1692

stay1754

to hang out1811

home1832

habitate1866

c1405 [see sense 2a].

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iii. l. 422 In chaumeris sone thair residence thai maid.

1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 574 I haue maid my residence With hie Princes of greit puissance.

1585 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 747 The parrochynnis quhair they wer borne or had thair cheiff residence.

1649 A. Ross Life Mahomet in tr. Alcoran 405 The Heaven, where God kept his residence.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 734 Many a Towred structure high, Where Scepter'd Angels held thir residence .

1705 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Europe 420 Both these Gentlemen are of a House, where a Noble P— makes his Residence, when he Honours that University with his Presence.

1736 J. Ralph tr. T. de Saint-Hyacinthe Mem. & Hist. Prince Titi iii. 147 The vast multitude of Birds which kept there their Residence..made every thing appear chearful and lively.

1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont vi. 81 In these [forests] a great variety and number of animals had their residence.

1833 C. F. Crusé tr. Eusebius Eccl. Hist. (ed. 2) iv. xi. 139 He also had his residence at Rome.

1892 Univ. of Chicago Quart. Cal. 9 Students are advised to make their residence in the dormitories.

1917 N. O. Winter Hist. Northwest Ohio II. 1024/2 For several years he has been out of the tailoring business in Toledo, though he keeps his residence there.

1949 M. Hadas tr. J. Burckhardt Age of Constantine Great ii. 54 Maximian made his residence in Milan, which the pressure of the Alemanni..had well-nigh made a border post.

1991 W. Blauw in E. Huttmann et al. Urban Housing Segregation iii. 49 In 1986, 14 percent of the Dutch had their residence in these cities, whereas more than half (56 percent) of the Surinamese lived there.

b. So to have (also hold, keep, †make) residence. [Compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French tenir residence (1376 or earlier with reference to clerics; compare to make (one's) residence at Phrases 2).]

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)]

wonc725

erdec893

siteOE

liveeOE

to make one's woningc960

through-wonOE

bigc1175

walkc1225

inwonea1300

lenda1300

lenga1300

lingera1300

erthec1300

stallc1315

lasta1325

lodge1362

habit?a1366

breeda1375

inhabitc1374

indwella1382

to have one's mansionc1385

to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400

keepc1400

repairc1400

to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405

to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425

winc1425

to make (one's) residence1433

resort1453

abidec1475

use1488

remaina1500

demur1523

to keep one's house1523

occupy1523

reside1523

enerdc1540

kennel1552

bower1596

to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597

subsist1618

mansiona1638

tenant1650

fastena1657

hospitate1681

wont1692

stay1754

to hang out1811

home1832

habitate1866

1398 in J. Slater Early Scots Texts (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1952) No. 38 And tha Scottis borne men that now ar ressauit..to the faith of Ingland sal be constreign[yt t]o d[welle] and mak residence..in Ingland.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 4515 (MED) Wher Discord holdeth residence, It is wel wers þan swerd or pestilence.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 179 Hit was not conueniente an Emperoure to kepe residence where thapostles crownede kepede the principate.

1508 W. Dunbar Ballade Barnard Stewart in Poems (1998) I. 178 Welcum..Withe vs to liue and to maik recidence.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. ii. 24 Within the infant rinde of this small flower, Poyson hath residence, and medecine power.

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Sea Voy. ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaaaa3^v/2 What place is this? Sure something more then humane keeps residence here.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 999 I upon my Frontieres here Keep residence .

1734 I. Watts Philos. Ess. (ed. 2) vi. i. 142 Devils are supposed to have Residence among Mankind to tempt them to Sin.

1781 J. Clowes tr. E. Swedenborg True Christian Relig. II. vii. 22 The Will and the Understanding, with respect to their Principles or Beginnings, have Residence in the Head.

1822 W. Scott Peveril II. v. 141 The banner, which indicated that the Lord of Man held residence within its ruinous precincts, hung motionless by the ensign-staff.

1833 T. Chalmers On Power of God (1835) I. 72 Virtue..has had everlasting residence in the nature of the Godhead.

1913 N. C. Fowler How to obtain Citizenship 122 Many of the States have made special laws permitting them to hold residence within the States they formerly resided in.

1921 W. B. Neff Bench & Bar N. Ohio 32 As qualifications for officeholding they were required to have residence in the district, and freehold estate of 500 acres of land.

2005 Y. Zheng Social Life of Opium in China iii. 50 Generations of men such as Zhang Dai frequented or kept residence on the legendary Qinhuai [river].

†P2. Scottish. to make (one's) residence: to stay at or in a place for a certain time, spec. in order to perform official duties or comply with regulations (cf. sense 1). Obsolete. [After Anglo-Norman and Middle French faire residence (1339 or earlier with reference to clerics; 15th cent. or earlier in more general senses; compare to make residence at Phrases 1b).]

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)]

wonc725

erdec893

siteOE

liveeOE

to make one's woningc960

through-wonOE

bigc1175

walkc1225

inwonea1300

lenda1300

lenga1300

lingera1300

erthec1300

stallc1315

lasta1325

lodge1362

habit?a1366

breeda1375

inhabitc1374

indwella1382

to have one's mansionc1385

to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400

keepc1400

repairc1400

to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405

to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425

winc1425

to make (one's) residence1433

resort1453

abidec1475

use1488

remaina1500

demur1523

to keep one's house1523

occupy1523

reside1523

enerdc1540

kennel1552

bower1596

to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597

subsist1618

mansiona1638

tenant1650

fastena1657

hospitate1681

wont1692

stay1754

to hang out1811

home1832

habitate1866

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)]

liec1000

harbourc1200

sojournc1290

layc1300

sojourc1330

to make, take (up) one's lodging1362

pilgrimagea1382

bield?a1400

lodgec1400

tarryc1400

to make (one's) residence1433

harbingec1475

harbry1513

stay1554

roost?1555

embower1591

quarter1591

leaguer1596

allodge1601

tenta1616

visit1626

billet1628

to lie abroad1650

tabernacle1653

sojourney1657

canton1697

stop1797

to shake down1858

to hole up1875

perendinate1886

shack1935

cotch1950

1433 in J. Robertson Liber Collegii Glasguensis (1846) 167 Qwhen hym lykis tyll cum tyll do hys erandis or mak residens within the town.

a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 670 If that I mak abid or resydens In to o place langar than o nycht.

1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bii^*v In his avne presence Heir sall I mak residence.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 200 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 101 Thai mak residence raith and airly will rys To kepe ye college clene.

1584–5 Extr. Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1876) I. 116 The tuelf puir men of the said hospitall sall mak residence.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 206 Quhen the king thrie days thair had maid recidence.., the fourt day he returnis quhairfra he cam.

c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 24 The regent..was then making his residence at Glasgow.

†P3. without residence: without delay or tarrying. Obsolete. rare. [After Middle French sans residence (although this is first attested slightly later: c1490; compare earlier sans faire residence (1346)).]

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > immediacy > immediately [phrase]

without restc1225

but bodea1300

without residence1488

before you know where you are1803

in a heartbeat1860

before (one) can say knife1874

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 369 He raid To Tynto hill with-outyn residens.

a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 2359 Sche gart bryng, withouten Recidens, With grete effere this knycht to hir presens.

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus ii. f. 34^v Thay bad me pas withoutin residence, Vnto the ten Sibillais of science.

1584 R. Greene Gwydonius f. 5^v He trauayled by the space of seauen weekes without anye residence, vntill he came to a Citie called Barutta.

P4. to take up (one's) residence: to establish oneself; to settle. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence

wickc897

telda1325

buildc1340

nestlea1382

to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400

to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425

to take one's lodgec1475

reside1490

inhabit1548

to settle one's rest1562

to sit down1579

to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584

to set (up) one's rest1590

nest1591

to set down one's rest1591

roost1593

inherit1600

habituate1603

seat1612

to take up (one's) residencea1626

settle1627

pitch1629

fix1638

locate1652

to marry and settle1718

domesticate1768

domiciliate1815

to hang up one's hat1826

domicile1831

to stick one's stakes1872

homestead1877

to put down roots1882

to hang one's hat1904

localize1930

a1626 L. Andrewes 96 Serm.: Nativity (1629) 88 By what manner place, He made choise of, to be borne at, He would teach us, what manner of spirits, He doth affect, to take up his residence, and to rest in.

1711 D. Manley Dk. Marlborough's Vindic. 15 Whilst his gracious Benefactress is contented to take up her Residence in an old patch'd-up Palace.

1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. xxxvi. 263 The arts and sciences took up their residence..at Rome.

1819 Weavers' Mag. & Lit. Compan. Aug. 264 Birds..which are either natives of the United States, or known to take up residence there.

1822 M. Graham Jrnl. 3 Nov. in Captain's Wife (1993) 130 San Martin, who..is about to move into the city, and is to take up his residence in the directorial palace.

1888 J. McCarthy & R. C. Praed Ladies' Gallery II. ii. 29 I did not accept his invitation to take up my residence in his house.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 4 Mar. 5/2 Yuan Shih-K'ai has received permission to take up his residence..in the first-class or prefectural city of Wei-hwei Fu.

1926 Amer. Mercury July 284/1 They take up residence in California to wear plus fours and play golf with their fellow-plutocrats.

1958 K. Tynan Let. Feb. (1994) iii. 216 The royal family should take up residence, with all convenient speed, in some distant British dependency.

2007 New Scientist 28 July 19/3 California's central coast, where the Humboldt squid has recently taken up residence.

P5. in residence.

a. Living in a particular place, spec. (as canon in residence, etc.) in order to perform official duties or comply with regulations (cf. sense 1).

ΚΠ

1727 Vindic. True Acct. Canon R. Eyre & Mrs. E. Swanton 43 The Canon in Residence Officiated at the North-side.

1770 B. Porteus Rev. Life & Char. Archbishop Secker p. xxxvi He attended Divine Service constantly in that Cathedral twice every Day, whether in Residence or not.

1817 E. B. Hamilton Rec. Life & Death Princess Charlotte 107 Mr. Goodenough, the Canon in residence sung an anthem from the 25th chapter of Matthew.

1845 S. Wilberforce in A. R. Ashwell Life S. Wilberforce (1880) I. vii. 283 I wish I was in residence to play the host to you.

1892 G. W. Kitchin Compotus Rolls St. Swithun's, Winchester Introd. 3 The Canon in Residence..actually gave orders that the Rolls..should be thrown into the fire.

1945 D. Thomas Let. 5 Dec. (1987) 576 After much formfilling and dirty-questions-answering at the front door of the American Embassy, I am now going to try the back, hoping that consular Sweeney is in residence.

1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 176/2 The ladies currently in residence in retirement villages who remember grand nights in Model A Fords.

1989 King's Coll. Cambr. Ann. Rep. 3 The number of past and present members of King's at the beginning of the Michaelmas Term 1989 is 6,985 of whom 862 are in residence.

2002 B. Hoey Her Majesty vi. 87 Until Diana's death even this was not flown over the Palace when the Queen was not in residence; the flagstaff remained bare when she was away.

b. Chiefly postpositively, designating a person with a particular occupation (esp. an artist or writer) employed, usually for a specified period, to work among and interact with the members of a college or other institution. Also in extended (frequently humorous) use. See also artist-in-residence n. at artist n. Compounds 4, poet-in-residence n. at poet n. Compounds 2, writer-in-residence at writer n. Phrases 1.

ΚΠ

1927 H. L. Cohen More One-act Plays by Mod. Authors 356 Since 1921 he [sc. Robert Frost] has exercised at intervals unique functions as ‘poet in residence’ at the University of Michigan.

1950 D. Thomas Let. 18 June (1987) 764 Perhaps the Poet would be in residence the whole of one term, on tap, as it were, to discuss the poetry of students & preside over the criticism of poetry by other students.

1954 R. Jarrell Pict. from Inst. iii. 94 How glad Dr. Rosenbaum was that he was only a Composer in Residence.

1968 Mrs. L. B. Johnson Diary 30 Apr. in White House Diary (1970) 667 He [sc. Eric Hoffer] said, ‘I call myself a conversationalist in residence.’

1979 Guardian 27 June 8/3 (advt.) Photographer in Residence required... There are no specific teaching commitments but the photographer will be expected to participate in the life of the centre and be available to students and others on an informal basis.

2004 Time Out N.Y. 28 Oct. 94/2 The Lower East Side's Slipper Room presents an evening of neoburlesque regalement, with titillator-in-residence Delirium Tremens.

Compounds

C1. General use as a modifier.

residence address n.

ΚΠ

1866 Gazetteer Madison County (title page) A directory of the Altons, and a list of the names, occupation and residence address of the merchants, manufacturers and farmers, of the townships and villages of the county.

1890 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. to Publishers (1967) 264 I do not know your residence-address or Whitford's.

1998 Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) (Nexis) 3 Oct. 21 a State law requires voters to give a residence address when they register.

residence house n.

ΚΠ

1806 Universal Mag. New Ser. Mar. 279/2 At Southwell, at the Residence House, the Rev. J. H. Hume, prebendary and rector of Charlton.

1838 Act 1 & 2 Victoria c. 23 §7 Where the Residence House.., and Appurtenances belonging to any Benefice shall be inconveniently situate [etc.].

1920 Times 6 Jan. 6/4 It would be a pleasant holiday; the residence-house is available, and an allowance of £5 a week should cover unavoidable expenses.

1996 N. Doe Legal Framework Church of Eng. 417 The incumbent may pull down the residence house and outbuildings.

residence part n.

ΚΠ

1833 F. A. Carrington & J. Payne Rep. Cases Nisi Prius V. 439 The quantity of light and air was, on the whole, increased; and some added, that the comfort of the residence-part of the plaintiff's premises was increased also.

1889 Cent. Mag. July 374/2 The residence parts of the town.

1998 CNN (Nexis) 19 Dec. Sitting with the president, right now, in the residence part of the White House are members of the Democratic leadership and other Democrats in House.

residence permit n.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > permit allowing residence

permis de séjour1803

residence permit1846

1846 C. White Three Years in Constantinople v. 139 British Ionian and Maltese subjects, who receive residence permits from the consulates, are required to renew them every third year.

1923 Times 30 Aug. 7/7 A passport visas of either country will cost one gold franc, and a residence permit, 10 gold francs.

1992 C. Thubron Turning back Sun xxi. 157 As he swung his suitcase through the barrier, the police stopped him only cursorily, and stamped his residence permit without a question.

residence room n.

ΚΠ

1857 G. M. Musgrave Pilgr. Dauphiné I. i. 10 A high walled enclosure, at one angle of which stood a sort of observatory, with residence rooms attached.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 July 16/1 The residence rooms will be so designed and furnished as [etc.].

1955 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 55 1203/3 All the residence rooms in the new building were attractively furnished.

2000 P. A. Bramadat Church on World's Turf vii. 133 The congested residence rooms in which we lived meant that the interpersonal difficulties that emerge among any small group of travelers went largely unresolved.

residence street n.

ΚΠ

1865 S. Bowles Across Continent xxvi. 289 The only way to get up and down the others with a horse, is to go zig-zag from one side to the other. Some of the principal residence streets are after this fashion.

1915 Munic. Jrnl. 14 Jan. 40/1 It was learned that Cleveland was using on residence streets a softer sandstone from the Berea and Amherst quarries.

1997 Tulsa (Oklahoma) World (Nexis) 17 Dec. 5 He also saw residence streets bordered by luxurious mansions and comfortable cottages.

residence town n.

ΚΠ

1817 C. H. Gifford Hist. Wars occasioned by French Revol. I. viii. ix. 677 The supreme junta..ordered..all the generals who were in this residence town..to attend them.

1883 Cent. Mag. July 335/2 Titusville..is the favourite residence town of prosperous brokers.

1986 A. R. David Pyramid Builders Anc. Egypt (2003) viii. 195 Kahun continued to flourish throughout the 12th Dynasty and into the 13th Dynasty, and was a place of much greater significance than that afforded to a mere pyramid workmen's residence town.

C2.

residence city n. [after German Residenzstadt Residenzstadt n.] a seat of a royal or princely court; cf. Residenz n.

ΚΠ

1825 in T. Sharp Life John Sharp I. 201 There was, in the whole kingdom, only one high priest who was always with the king in the residence city.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vi. vi. 101 He is not to fight with the Hanoverians; is delicately but effectually to shove them well away from the Residence Cities.

1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. xiii. 386 The chief new cities built from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century were ‘residence cities’ for kings and princes, like Versailles, Karlsruhe, and Potsdam.

2004 Jrnl. Contemp. Hist. 39 174 The superbly stage-managed display in the old residence city of Prussian kings..was an important step towards transforming Hitler from a partisan party leader into a ‘statesman’.

residence counsellor n. North American a pastoral adviser attached to a residential block in a university.

ΚΠ

1944 Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gaz. 11 Aug. 8/5 Miss Norton was recently elected residence counsellor at Stephens' college for young ladies.

1973 Pennsylvania Voice 10 Oct. 5/1 A residence counselor who has been dealing with a student may feel that he is not properly equipped to help the student resolve his problem.

1995 Canad. Jrnl. Educ. 20 441 In addition to the quantitative data provided by these measures, qualitative information was gathered from the students and their teachers and residence counsellors.

residence-general n. [after French Résidence générale (1885 or earlier), spec. use of résidence générale headquarters (1822 or earlier); compare résident général senior representative in a French protectorate (1856 or earlier; 1800 or earlier with reference to 17th cent. royal envoys within France)] now historical the official residency of the senior French representative in a French protectorate.

ΚΠ

1918 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 17 107 Temporary setting up of Residence-General and administrative services at Rabat.

1955 Times 9 May 8/4 The crowd..had tried to break into the residence-general.

2007 R. C. Keller Colonial Madness 32 In 1921, the residence-general [in Tunisia] attempted to determine ‘the numbers of individuals susceptible of forming the population of the envisaged asylum’.

residence hall n. = sense 4c.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > students' residence

hospital1536

hostel1536

pensionary1583

inn1655

hotel1748

residence1828

bursa1831

residence hall1857

dormitory1865

hall1879

hospice1895

hospitium1895

1857 Times 23 Feb. 7/5 The want of residence halls, the want of preparatory schools, and, above all, the preposterously extensive character of the curriculum.

1915 J. M. Taylor & E. H. Haight Vassar vii. 175 Students had begun to come in larger numbers and the new residence hall was filled at once.

2007 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 107/2 Keeping whores out of Harvard residence halls had to do with the honor of Harvard.

residence order n. chiefly British (a) (frequently with modifying adjective) a court order restricting or directing where a person may live; (b) spec. a court order specifying where and with whom a child should live.

ΚΠ

1961 Plebs Aug. 464/1 I do not know Brother Barrett personally because at the time of his visit I was still under a restricted residence order in the Northern Provinces.

1968 Times 26 June 1/1 (heading) Enforced residence orders revoked.

1988 Guardian 27 July 3/1 To replace custody and access orders, the commission suggests a new residence order laying down the child's living arrangements.

2005 Gay Times Dec. 33/1 A Residence Order decides where a child will live, while a Contact Order establishes the amount and type of contact the child will have with his or her other parent.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	residence
释义	residencen.¹ Brit. /ˈrɛzᵻd(ə)ns/, U.S. /ˈrɛz(ə)d(ə)ns/ Forms: Middle English residens, Middle English resydennce, Middle English–1500s resydence, Middle English–1500s resydens, Middle English–1600s residense, Middle English– residence, 1500s resedence, 1500s–1600s recidens; Scottish pre-1700 rasidens, pre-1700 reasidence, pre-1700 recedence, pre-1700 recidence, pre-1700 recidens, pre-1700 recydence, pre-1700 resedence, pre-1700 resedens, pre-1700 residens, pre-1700 resydence, pre-1700 resydens, pre-1700 1700s– residence. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French residence. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French residence, Middle French residense, residance (French résidence ) obligation of an ecclesiastic to reside (c1255 in Anglo-Norman), dwelling place, abode (1283 in Old French), action of residing (1375 or earlier), place, position (late 14th cent. or earlier), delay (see without residence at Phrases 3) < post-classical Latin residentia stay, abode (9th cent.), settled place of abode (from 12th cent. in British and continental sources), obligation of an ecclesiastic to reside (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources), state of being a resident (13th cent.), right of staying, abiding (in realm) (13th cent. in a British source), obligation of an academic to reside (1400, c1556 in British sources) < classical Latin resident- , residēns , present participle of residēre reside v.¹ + -ia -ia suffix¹; compare -ence suffix. Compare Old Occitan residensa , Catalan residència (14th cent.), Spanish residencia (end of the 13th cent.), Portuguese residência (15th cent.), Italian residenza (a1363); also Middle Dutch residentie (Dutch residentie ), and ( < French) German Residenz (17th cent., originally and chiefly in sense ‘princely or royal palace’). Compare earlier resident adj. and later reside v.¹In sense 4d after Dutch residentie administrative division in the Dutch East Indies (1808; earlier in sense ‘trading post of the Dutch East India Company, including the surrounding territory’ (1626); compare sense 4e). In sense 4f after Russian rezidentura residentura n. Compare residency n. 5 and resident n.¹ 4. 1. The fact of living or staying regularly at or in a specified place for the performance of official duties, for work, or to comply with regulations; (also) the period during which such a stay is required of one. Cf. in residence at Phrases 5, to make (one's) residence at Phrases 2. a. Christian Church. With reference to the presence of incumbents in their benefices, canons in their cathedrals, etc. Also figurative. Cf. non-residence n. 1a. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > to fulfil requirements > specifically ecclesiastical residencec1400 residency?1567 c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 493 (MED) No persone ne vicare ne prelate is excusud fro personele residense to be made in þer beneficys. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 815 (MED) Avaunsyd persownys holde residence Among ther parysshens. a1500 (?c1378) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 424 (MED) Many curatis..wenen þat þei ben not holdun to residense bi leeue of þe pope or of þer bischop. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxxviii For lack of residence..al the parishioners lacked preaching. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1664/2 He departed from Lichefield to a benefice in Leycester shyre,..wherupon he keepyng residence, taught diligently. 1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 105 With the Spanish Divines he holdeth residence de jure divino, but if they erred in anything it was about personall residence. 1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times v. vii. 210 It were Liberty enough, if for the next seaven yeeres, all Sermons were bound to keepe Residence on this Text: Brethren Love one another. 1699 Gale Let. in S. Pepys Mem. (1828) V. 255 My residence determines tomorrow, because my last sermon could not be made till then, though the eating residence terminated a few days ago. 1706 J. Johnson Clergy-man's Vade Mecum x. 79 Only a Prebendary..strictly obliged to perpetual Residence, was not by the Canon Law permitted to hold any Benefice with Cure, without a Dispensation. 1803 S. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 48 As exceptions to the general and indisputable principle of residence. 1903 T. C. Peter Hist. Glasney Collegiate Church 20 The sacristan of Glasney and his successors, being canons and in perpetual residence, were to make distribution yearly out of the fruits of the said church. 1996 P. Mussett in N. Yates & P. A. Welsby Faith & Fabric iv. 94 Regulations for securing the constant residence of members of the chapter. b. In other connections, as with reference to colleges or universities, electoral rights, civil status, etc. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > for teaching or influence residence1608 society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > to fulfil requirements residence1868 1608 H. Youll Canzonets 3 Voyces i. Ded. sig. Aij Your place of residence is now in one and the same Vniuersitie. 1661 J. Fell Life Thomas Fuller 4 During his residence in this Colledge a Fellowship was vacant, for which the Doctor became Candidate,..besides the desire of the whole house. 1797 Monthly Mag. 3 266/1 During my residence at the university, and a constant intercourse with both reading and non-reading men [etc.]. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. viii. 275 The connection between the scholar and the school did not terminate with his residence. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation iv. 109 The head is usually bound to residence during term. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation v. 315 The ‘residence’ of an undergraduate student is now considered to be 168 days out of 365. 1896 Academy 18 Jan. 56/1 At Oxford residence will not be resumed until the end of next week. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 849/1 If the purchaser farmed the land himself and made satisfactory progress, the period of obligatory residence was reduced to five years. 1991 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 20 Dec. a1/3 The federal government is killing a program that allows foreign nationals—most of them nannies—to apply for permanent residence after living in Canada for at least two years. 2. a. The circumstance or fact of having one's permanent or usual dwelling place or home in or at a certain place; the fact of residing or being resident. Also in extended use.Recorded earliest in to have (also †hold, keep, make) one's residence at Phrases 1a. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] wonningc960 bewistc1200 livingc1350 lodging1362 habitationc1374 indwellinga1382 dwellingc1384 inhabitinga1400 bidingc1400 inhabitationc1400 residencec1405 mansiona1425 winningc1425 demur1444 abodec1450 resianty1467 demurrance1509 resiance1566 place-being1567 residency1579 resiancy1580 commorancy1586 residing1587 inhabitance1588 abodement1592 commorance1594 habit1603 commoration1623 inwoning1647 inhabitancy1681 habitancy1792 domicile1835 occupying1849 abidal1850 tenancy1856 c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) G. §3. l. 660 In hernes and in lanes blynde..thise robbours..Holden hir pryuee fereful residence. 1480–1 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 315 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 No manere freman..shall dwell..without the citie by no contynuell resydennce. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 60 Men makis in court thair solistationes:..Sum be continvall residence. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 331 How chances it they trauaile? their residence both in reputation, and profit was better both wayes. View more context for this quotation 1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 479 Then they were glad to invite our Merchant's Residence with what privileges they would desire. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 69 Those Parts..had been formerly in the Possession of the Sea, and the place of its natural Residence. 1714 R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. (ed. 2) II. 341 There was one special and standing monument of his residence among them. 1790 A. J. Dallas Rep. Cases Pennsylvania 1 243 There is an essential difference between residence and abiding in a particular place. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 43 The marine shells..demonstrate the former residence of the sea upon the mountains. 1860 T. D. Woolsey Introd. Internat. Law (1879) iv. 132 Ambassadors in ancient times were sent on special occasions by one nation to another. Their residence at foreign courts is a practice of modern growth. 1883 Cent. Mag. Oct. 858/1 The next center of fashionable residence was Blucker street. 1904 W. Dennison in H. A. Sanders Rom. Hist. Sources & Instit. 45 The surname Capitolinus would indicate residence on the Capitol, but the Montani were perhaps residents of the Palatine. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1031/2 The aim in Victorian times seems to have been to make admission to the Casual Ward..an even more humiliating experience than residence in the Workhouse. 1995 P. Conroy Beach Music (1996) xxiv. 402 From the very first days of his residence in Waterford, Max had always sent money back to his family in Europe. b. Cultural Anthropology. The fact of settling in a particular place after marriage, according to the prevailing kinship system. Cf. matrilocal adj., neolocal adj., etc. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun] > place of settlement after marriage residence1865 marital home1910 1865 J. F. McLennan Primitive Marriage viii. 154 Teadhloch and cuedichc.., Gaelic names for family, mean the first having a common residence; the second those who eat together. 1889 E. B. Tylor in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 18 247 Now, on looking out from the schedules the adhesions of this avoidance-custom, a relation appears between it and the customs of the world as to residence after marriage. 1924 W. H. Rivers Social Organisation v. 90 The last aspect of father-right and mother-right to be mentioned..is one with which perhaps I ought to have dealt in the second chapter, namely, the place of residence in case of marriage. 1968 C. Jacobson tr. C. Lévi-Strauss Struct. Anthropol. xv. 309 The impact of residence on descent. 1992 J. Silverberg & J. P. Gray Aggression & Peacefulness 193 Residence is ambilocal, and residence units vary from single households scattered over a band's territory to hamlets where the entire band resides. †3. Continuance in some course or action. with residence: continuously, insistently. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > [noun] continuationc1374 residence?c1450 continuance1530 countenance1592 pursuance1601 continualness1611 ongoing1637 continuando1672 continuing1691 continuality1805 ongoingness1932 the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > [adverb] > insistently with residence?c1450 instantly1477 insistently1873 insistingly1880 ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 862 (MED) In þe bischope presence Þus cuthbert prayed with residence. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Order of Fools (Laud) in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 449 (MED) Cheef of alle folys..Able in his foly to holde resydence Is he that nouther loveth God nor dredith. a1500 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 761 (MED) Hasty ffrutus haue no longe resydens; Ryght feyre outward, þe coore doth putrifye. a1602 W. Perkins Cases of Consc. (1619) 23 Men are not simply condemned for their particular sinnes, but for their continuance and residence in them. 1609 C. Tourneur Funerall Poeme sig. B2^v And in the due performance of her Lawes, His fauours had their constant residence. a1653 H. Binning Sinners Sanctuary (1670) xxvi. 197 The constant and most continued residence of the most serious thoughts and affections. 4. a. The place where a person resides; the dwelling place or home of a person (esp. one of some rank or distinction). Also in extended use. (of) no fixed residence = (of) no fixed abode at abode n.¹ Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > [noun] earneOE wickc900 bottleeOE innOE boldOE wonningc1000 wanea1225 wonea1250 bidea1300 dwelling1340 habitaculec1374 habitaclec1384 habitationc1384 mansionc1385 placea1387 manantie?a1400 dungeonc1460 longhousec1460 folda1500 residencea1522 abode1549 bield1570 lodgement1598 bidinga1600 sit-house1743 location1795 wigwam1817 address1855 yard1865 res1882 nivas1914 multifamily1952 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > travelling from place to place [phrase] > wandering > of no fixed abode no fixed abode1582 (of) no fixed residence1859 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 214 Quhen that the ravyns sal ryve out bath thine ene And on the rattis salbe thy residence.] a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. x. 109 In soft bene medowis..Our habitatioun is and residens. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 120 Chasing the royall bloud With furie from his natiue residence . View more context for this quotation 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 429 The vpper Region or the Head wherein the soule hath her Residence of estate, guarded by the Sences. 1637 J. Milton Comus 32 Not many furlongs thence Is your Fathers residence. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 346 Understand the same Of Fish within thir watry residence . View more context for this quotation 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 251 Caprea..a Place that had been the Retirement of Augustus for some time, and the Residence of Tiberius for several Years. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxi. 199 One thousand seven hundred and eighty houses, the residence of wealthy and honourable citizens. 1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. 515 Yellow-Poll. Rather less than the Pettichaps:..This species is found in America,..but its chief residence is in Guiana. 1859 Times 1 Feb. 9/5 Robert Murry, 35, and Johanna Murry, 28, described as husband and wife, and travelling ventriloquists of no fixed residence, were charged with attacking and robbing Robert Hobbs on the highway of a purse containing a 5l. Bank of England note. 1863 E. V. Neale Analogy Thought & Nature 196 The regulative will, or soul,..has no special residence within the brain. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 513 Every dangerous place in West Africa is regarded as the residence of a god. 1929 D. Hammett Red Harvest vii. 71 He phoned the old man's residence to find out if the check was on the up-and-up. 1936 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 31 720 Inhabitants of caravans and of ships, and vagabonds, as far as they have no fixed residence, are also entered on individual cards. 1992 Pioneer on Sunday (Delhi) 13 Sept. 1/5 The doyen of the Jaipur Atrauli gharana of Hindustani classical music, Pandit Mallikarjun Mansoor is no more. He died at his residence. 2003 Family Circle 13 May 62/2 Estate by entireties deed..is a special deed that protects your residence if your spouse is sued. b. A dwelling, a house, esp. an impressive, official, or superior one; a mansion. Cf. private residence n. at private adj.¹, adv., and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > large or palatial palacec1300 dome1553 residencea1616 great house1623 mansion house1651 palazzo1657 châteauc1739 mansion1815 palacio1839 haveli1871 puri1935 a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 12 It deserues..A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time. View more context for this quotation a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Westmorl. 140 Anne Clyfford..because having her greatest Residence and Estate in the North, is properly referrable to this County. a1725 A. Nisbet Syst. Heraldry (1742) II. iv. xvi. 171 Rothsay has his Name and Title from the Castle of Rothsay,..an antient Residence of our Scots Kings in the Isle of Bute. 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 157 Nor wanted aught within, That royal residence might well befit, For grandeur or for use. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. i. 5 Considerable additions were necessary to make it a comfortable family residence. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. viii. 365 A residence was assigned him at Bithur. 1857 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 198 His love of display a passion, his airs nabobish, his residence palatial. 1922 Times 4 May 27 (advt.) Residence; four bed, two reception, bath; tennis, orchard, paddocks, four acres; peachery. 1932 B. Segale At End of Sante Fe Trail iii. xvi. 315 All went pell-mell to the front of the Mayor's residence. 1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl i. 17 The Israeli Ambassador's residence, three streets away, was protected round the clock. 2005 W. Wall This is Country 18 He moved out there so his wife and kids would be safe. Doing the quiet business from a desirable residence in the suburbs. c. Chiefly North American. In universities and colleges: a building providing accommodation for students; a residence hall, a dormitory. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > students' residence hospital1536 hostel1536 pensionary1583 inn1655 hotel1748 residence1828 bursa1831 residence hall1857 dormitory1865 hall1879 hospice1895 hospitium1895 1828 Amer. Ann. Educ. 3 514 No female was permitted to reside within the circle of the student's [sic] residences. 1842 Lancet 15 Jan. 537/1 If a college residence be thus provided for the students, it is obvious that a system of regular discipline in regard to hours of admission at the gates must be adopted. 1921 Jrnl. Amer. Assoc. Univ. Women 15 106/2 The site of a college residence should be carefully chosen with reference to healthful and inspirational living. 1939 Outspan (S. Afr.) 27 Oct. 49 That little lawn in front of Men's Residence at ‘Wits’ [University] is a place for crazy ideas. 1954 College Admissions 1 123/2 We are now struggling with 430 women in our freshman class, some 50 over the maximum we can house in our freshman residences. 1988 Weekend Argus (Cape Town) 19 Mar. 12 [The] Matie SRC chairman..said the move to open all residences was a positive step forward. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Sept. ii. 103/1 This new graduate student residence for Harvard is a distinctive example of progressive contextualism: familiar elements like brickwork..are embraced by contemporary design. †d. An administrative division in the Dutch East Indies; = residency n. 3. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > in Dutch East Indies residency1814 residence1889 1889 Dublin Rev. Jan. 166 The inhabitants dress differently in this residence from what they do in other parts of Java. †e. Apparently: a trading post. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town, village, or collection of dwellings > [noun] > for trading purposes post1789 outpost1802 residence1890 wood post1904 1890 C. Gross Gild Merchant I. 156 In 1687 one of the principal ‘residences’ or marts of the Company [of Merchant Adventurers trading to the Low Countries] was at Hamburgh. f. A group or organization of intelligence agents in a foreign country; = residency n. 5. Cf. resident n.¹ 4. rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > political police > [noun] > secret service agent > in a foreign country > group of residency1959 residentura1963 rezidentsia1968 residence1969 1969 H. H. Cooper Cave with Two Exits i. 69 In Rome he was met by a young man from the Residence... The Resident himself..was extremely secure... His cover was strictly diplomatic. 5. The time during which a person resides in or at a place; a period of residing, a stay. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > period of residency1579 home-sitting1601 residence1611 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [noun] > time of stay1538 residence1611 sojourning1611 residence time1868 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Consistence, a consistence, or being; a residence, or setling. 1676 in Fasti Aberd. (1854) 347 The sexennial residence of the regents and masters of philosophie in the colledges. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 378 During a residence [Fr. séjour] of four months that I stay'd at Court. 1740 S. Johnson Drake in Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 510 Being obliged by this Accident to somewhat a longer Residence among the Moors. 1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph (Dublin ed.) II. 231 My long residence in a warmer climate. 1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal cli There was no representation during my residence. 1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. 67 The Jews lost..their spoken language..during their comparatively short residence in Babylon. 1857 Gen. Nicholson in S. Smiles Charac. (1876) iii. 73 I was always the better for a residence with him and his wife. 1871 A. J. C. Hare Walks in Rome I. Introd. 11 It must not..be supposed that one short residence at Rome will be sufficient to make a foreigner acquainted with all its varied treasures. 1902 G. S. Whitmore Last Maori War ix. 149 Those whose long residence entitles them to rank as experts. 1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) x. 239 For long stretches during her ten-year residence in Persia Elizabeth saw no other European woman but her children's nurse. 6. figurative. A seat of power, a particular quality, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute > residence or seat of a power or quality seat1390 chair1509 residence1642 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 36 To call that inviolable residence of justice and liberty, by such an odious name. 1781 W. Cowper Truth 387 The blest residence of truth divine. 1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 218 The free cities of Italy; the very early residences of trade and manufactures. 1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon VI. ix. 256 The residence of the supreme authority..the Supreme Junta. 1920 J. M. Murry Aspects of Lit. 132 Between belief and logic lies..the kingdom of art, no less the residence of truth than the two other realms. 1996 J. Goldthwaite Nat. Hist. Make-believe v. 208 In rejecting the world as the proper residence of grace, these tales are all of them escapist mechanisms. Phrases P1. a. to have (also †hold, keep, make) one's residence: to have one's usual dwelling place or home; to reside. Also in extended use. [Compare Middle French faire sa residence, tenir sa residence (both a1467 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] wonc725 erdec893 siteOE liveeOE to make one's woningc960 through-wonOE bigc1175 walkc1225 inwonea1300 lenda1300 lenga1300 lingera1300 erthec1300 stallc1315 lasta1325 lodge1362 habit?a1366 breeda1375 inhabitc1374 indwella1382 to have one's mansionc1385 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 keepc1400 repairc1400 to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 winc1425 to make (one's) residence1433 resort1453 abidec1475 use1488 remaina1500 demur1523 to keep one's house1523 occupy1523 reside1523 enerdc1540 kennel1552 bower1596 to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597 subsist1618 mansiona1638 tenant1650 fastena1657 hospitate1681 wont1692 stay1754 to hang out1811 home1832 habitate1866 c1405 [see sense 2a]. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iii. l. 422 In chaumeris sone thair residence thai maid. 1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 574 I haue maid my residence With hie Princes of greit puissance. 1585 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 747 The parrochynnis quhair they wer borne or had thair cheiff residence. 1649 A. Ross Life Mahomet in tr. Alcoran 405 The Heaven, where God kept his residence. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 734 Many a Towred structure high, Where Scepter'd Angels held thir residence . View more context for this quotation 1705 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Europe 420 Both these Gentlemen are of a House, where a Noble P— makes his Residence, when he Honours that University with his Presence. 1736 J. Ralph tr. T. de Saint-Hyacinthe Mem. & Hist. Prince Titi iii. 147 The vast multitude of Birds which kept there their Residence..made every thing appear chearful and lively. 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont vi. 81 In these [forests] a great variety and number of animals had their residence. 1833 C. F. Crusé tr. Eusebius Eccl. Hist. (ed. 2) iv. xi. 139 He also had his residence at Rome. 1892 Univ. of Chicago Quart. Cal. 9 Students are advised to make their residence in the dormitories. 1917 N. O. Winter Hist. Northwest Ohio II. 1024/2 For several years he has been out of the tailoring business in Toledo, though he keeps his residence there. 1949 M. Hadas tr. J. Burckhardt Age of Constantine Great ii. 54 Maximian made his residence in Milan, which the pressure of the Alemanni..had well-nigh made a border post. 1991 W. Blauw in E. Huttmann et al. Urban Housing Segregation iii. 49 In 1986, 14 percent of the Dutch had their residence in these cities, whereas more than half (56 percent) of the Surinamese lived there. b. So to have (also hold, keep, †make) residence. [Compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French tenir residence (1376 or earlier with reference to clerics; compare to make (one's) residence at Phrases 2).] ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] wonc725 erdec893 siteOE liveeOE to make one's woningc960 through-wonOE bigc1175 walkc1225 inwonea1300 lenda1300 lenga1300 lingera1300 erthec1300 stallc1315 lasta1325 lodge1362 habit?a1366 breeda1375 inhabitc1374 indwella1382 to have one's mansionc1385 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 keepc1400 repairc1400 to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 winc1425 to make (one's) residence1433 resort1453 abidec1475 use1488 remaina1500 demur1523 to keep one's house1523 occupy1523 reside1523 enerdc1540 kennel1552 bower1596 to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597 subsist1618 mansiona1638 tenant1650 fastena1657 hospitate1681 wont1692 stay1754 to hang out1811 home1832 habitate1866 1398 in J. Slater Early Scots Texts (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1952) No. 38 And tha Scottis borne men that now ar ressauit..to the faith of Ingland sal be constreign[yt t]o d[welle] and mak residence..in Ingland. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 4515 (MED) Wher Discord holdeth residence, It is wel wers þan swerd or pestilence. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 179 Hit was not conueniente an Emperoure to kepe residence where thapostles crownede kepede the principate. 1508 W. Dunbar Ballade Barnard Stewart in Poems (1998) I. 178 Welcum..Withe vs to liue and to maik recidence. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. ii. 24 Within the infant rinde of this small flower, Poyson hath residence, and medecine power. View more context for this quotation a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Sea Voy. ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaaaa3^v/2 What place is this? Sure something more then humane keeps residence here. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 999 I upon my Frontieres here Keep residence . View more context for this quotation 1734 I. Watts Philos. Ess. (ed. 2) vi. i. 142 Devils are supposed to have Residence among Mankind to tempt them to Sin. 1781 J. Clowes tr. E. Swedenborg True Christian Relig. II. vii. 22 The Will and the Understanding, with respect to their Principles or Beginnings, have Residence in the Head. 1822 W. Scott Peveril II. v. 141 The banner, which indicated that the Lord of Man held residence within its ruinous precincts, hung motionless by the ensign-staff. 1833 T. Chalmers On Power of God (1835) I. 72 Virtue..has had everlasting residence in the nature of the Godhead. 1913 N. C. Fowler How to obtain Citizenship 122 Many of the States have made special laws permitting them to hold residence within the States they formerly resided in. 1921 W. B. Neff Bench & Bar N. Ohio 32 As qualifications for officeholding they were required to have residence in the district, and freehold estate of 500 acres of land. 2005 Y. Zheng Social Life of Opium in China iii. 50 Generations of men such as Zhang Dai frequented or kept residence on the legendary Qinhuai [river]. †P2. Scottish. to make (one's) residence: to stay at or in a place for a certain time, spec. in order to perform official duties or comply with regulations (cf. sense 1). Obsolete. [After Anglo-Norman and Middle French faire residence (1339 or earlier with reference to clerics; 15th cent. or earlier in more general senses; compare to make residence at Phrases 1b).] ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] wonc725 erdec893 siteOE liveeOE to make one's woningc960 through-wonOE bigc1175 walkc1225 inwonea1300 lenda1300 lenga1300 lingera1300 erthec1300 stallc1315 lasta1325 lodge1362 habit?a1366 breeda1375 inhabitc1374 indwella1382 to have one's mansionc1385 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 keepc1400 repairc1400 to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 winc1425 to make (one's) residence1433 resort1453 abidec1475 use1488 remaina1500 demur1523 to keep one's house1523 occupy1523 reside1523 enerdc1540 kennel1552 bower1596 to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597 subsist1618 mansiona1638 tenant1650 fastena1657 hospitate1681 wont1692 stay1754 to hang out1811 home1832 habitate1866 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)] liec1000 harbourc1200 sojournc1290 layc1300 sojourc1330 to make, take (up) one's lodging1362 pilgrimagea1382 bield?a1400 lodgec1400 tarryc1400 to make (one's) residence1433 harbingec1475 harbry1513 stay1554 roost?1555 embower1591 quarter1591 leaguer1596 allodge1601 tenta1616 visit1626 billet1628 to lie abroad1650 tabernacle1653 sojourney1657 canton1697 stop1797 to shake down1858 to hole up1875 perendinate1886 shack1935 cotch1950 1433 in J. Robertson Liber Collegii Glasguensis (1846) 167 Qwhen hym lykis tyll cum tyll do hys erandis or mak residens within the town. a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 670 If that I mak abid or resydens In to o place langar than o nycht. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bii^v In his avne presence Heir sall I mak residence. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat* l. 200 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 101 Thai mak residence raith and airly will rys To kepe ye college clene. 1584–5 Extr. Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1876) I. 116 The tuelf puir men of the said hospitall sall mak residence. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 206 Quhen the king thrie days thair had maid recidence.., the fourt day he returnis quhairfra he cam. c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 24 The regent..was then making his residence at Glasgow. †P3. without residence: without delay or tarrying. Obsolete. rare. [After Middle French sans residence (although this is first attested slightly later: c1490; compare earlier sans faire residence (1346)).] ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > immediacy > immediately [phrase] without restc1225 but bodea1300 without residence1488 before you know where you are1803 in a heartbeat1860 before (one) can say knife1874 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 369 He raid To Tynto hill with-outyn residens. a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 2359 Sche gart bryng, withouten Recidens, With grete effere this knycht to hir presens. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus ii. f. 34^v Thay bad me pas withoutin residence, Vnto the ten Sibillais of science. 1584 R. Greene Gwydonius f. 5^v He trauayled by the space of seauen weekes without anye residence, vntill he came to a Citie called Barutta. P4. to take up (one's) residence: to establish oneself; to settle. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence wickc897 telda1325 buildc1340 nestlea1382 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 to take one's lodgec1475 reside1490 inhabit1548 to settle one's rest1562 to sit down1579 to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584 to set (up) one's rest1590 nest1591 to set down one's rest1591 roost1593 inherit1600 habituate1603 seat1612 to take up (one's) residencea1626 settle1627 pitch1629 fix1638 locate1652 to marry and settle1718 domesticate1768 domiciliate1815 to hang up one's hat1826 domicile1831 to stick one's stakes1872 homestead1877 to put down roots1882 to hang one's hat1904 localize1930 a1626 L. Andrewes 96 Serm.: Nativity (1629) 88 By what manner place, He made choise of, to be borne at, He would teach us, what manner of spirits, He doth affect, to take up his residence, and to rest in. 1711 D. Manley Dk. Marlborough's Vindic. 15 Whilst his gracious Benefactress is contented to take up her Residence in an old patch'd-up Palace. 1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. xxxvi. 263 The arts and sciences took up their residence..at Rome. 1819 Weavers' Mag. & Lit. Compan. Aug. 264 Birds..which are either natives of the United States, or known to take up residence there. 1822 M. Graham Jrnl. 3 Nov. in Captain's Wife (1993) 130 San Martin, who..is about to move into the city, and is to take up his residence in the directorial palace. 1888 J. McCarthy & R. C. Praed Ladies' Gallery II. ii. 29 I did not accept his invitation to take up my residence in his house. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 4 Mar. 5/2 Yuan Shih-K'ai has received permission to take up his residence..in the first-class or prefectural city of Wei-hwei Fu. 1926 Amer. Mercury July 284/1 They take up residence in California to wear plus fours and play golf with their fellow-plutocrats. 1958 K. Tynan Let. Feb. (1994) iii. 216 The royal family should take up residence, with all convenient speed, in some distant British dependency. 2007 New Scientist 28 July 19/3 California's central coast, where the Humboldt squid has recently taken up residence. P5. in residence. a. Living in a particular place, spec. (as canon in residence, etc.) in order to perform official duties or comply with regulations (cf. sense 1). ΚΠ 1727 Vindic. True Acct. Canon R. Eyre & Mrs. E. Swanton 43 The Canon in Residence Officiated at the North-side. 1770 B. Porteus Rev. Life & Char. Archbishop Secker p. xxxvi He attended Divine Service constantly in that Cathedral twice every Day, whether in Residence or not. 1817 E. B. Hamilton Rec. Life & Death Princess Charlotte 107 Mr. Goodenough, the Canon in residence sung an anthem from the 25th chapter of Matthew. 1845 S. Wilberforce in A. R. Ashwell Life S. Wilberforce (1880) I. vii. 283 I wish I was in residence to play the host to you. 1892 G. W. Kitchin Compotus Rolls St. Swithun's, Winchester Introd. 3 The Canon in Residence..actually gave orders that the Rolls..should be thrown into the fire. 1945 D. Thomas Let. 5 Dec. (1987) 576 After much formfilling and dirty-questions-answering at the front door of the American Embassy, I am now going to try the back, hoping that consular Sweeney is in residence. 1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 176/2 The ladies currently in residence in retirement villages who remember grand nights in Model A Fords. 1989 King's Coll. Cambr. Ann. Rep. 3 The number of past and present members of King's at the beginning of the Michaelmas Term 1989 is 6,985 of whom 862 are in residence. 2002 B. Hoey Her Majesty vi. 87 Until Diana's death even this was not flown over the Palace when the Queen was not in residence; the flagstaff remained bare when she was away. b. Chiefly postpositively, designating a person with a particular occupation (esp. an artist or writer) employed, usually for a specified period, to work among and interact with the members of a college or other institution. Also in extended (frequently humorous) use. See also artist-in-residence n. at artist n. Compounds 4, poet-in-residence n. at poet n. Compounds 2, writer-in-residence at writer n. Phrases 1. ΚΠ 1927 H. L. Cohen More One-act Plays by Mod. Authors 356 Since 1921 he [sc. Robert Frost] has exercised at intervals unique functions as ‘poet in residence’ at the University of Michigan. 1950 D. Thomas Let. 18 June (1987) 764 Perhaps the Poet would be in residence the whole of one term, on tap, as it were, to discuss the poetry of students & preside over the criticism of poetry by other students. 1954 R. Jarrell Pict. from Inst. iii. 94 How glad Dr. Rosenbaum was that he was only a Composer in Residence. 1968 Mrs. L. B. Johnson Diary 30 Apr. in White House Diary (1970) 667 He [sc. Eric Hoffer] said, ‘I call myself a conversationalist in residence.’ 1979 Guardian 27 June 8/3 (advt.) Photographer in Residence required... There are no specific teaching commitments but the photographer will be expected to participate in the life of the centre and be available to students and others on an informal basis. 2004 Time Out N.Y. 28 Oct. 94/2 The Lower East Side's Slipper Room presents an evening of neoburlesque regalement, with titillator-in-residence Delirium Tremens. Compounds C1. General use as a modifier. residence address n. ΚΠ 1866 Gazetteer Madison County (title page) A directory of the Altons, and a list of the names, occupation and residence address of the merchants, manufacturers and farmers, of the townships and villages of the county. 1890 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. to Publishers (1967) 264 I do not know your residence-address or Whitford's. 1998 Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) (Nexis) 3 Oct. 21 a State law requires voters to give a residence address when they register. residence house n. ΚΠ 1806 Universal Mag. New Ser. Mar. 279/2 At Southwell, at the Residence House, the Rev. J. H. Hume, prebendary and rector of Charlton. 1838 Act 1 & 2 Victoria c. 23 §7 Where the Residence House.., and Appurtenances belonging to any Benefice shall be inconveniently situate [etc.]. 1920 Times 6 Jan. 6/4 It would be a pleasant holiday; the residence-house is available, and an allowance of £5 a week should cover unavoidable expenses. 1996 N. Doe Legal Framework Church of Eng. 417 The incumbent may pull down the residence house and outbuildings. residence part n. ΚΠ 1833 F. A. Carrington & J. Payne Rep. Cases Nisi Prius V. 439 The quantity of light and air was, on the whole, increased; and some added, that the comfort of the residence-part of the plaintiff's premises was increased also. 1889 Cent. Mag. July 374/2 The residence parts of the town. 1998 CNN (Nexis) 19 Dec. Sitting with the president, right now, in the residence part of the White House are members of the Democratic leadership and other Democrats in House. residence permit n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > permit allowing residence permis de séjour1803 residence permit1846 1846 C. White Three Years in Constantinople v. 139 British Ionian and Maltese subjects, who receive residence permits from the consulates, are required to renew them every third year. 1923 Times 30 Aug. 7/7 A passport visas of either country will cost one gold franc, and a residence permit, 10 gold francs. 1992 C. Thubron Turning back Sun xxi. 157 As he swung his suitcase through the barrier, the police stopped him only cursorily, and stamped his residence permit without a question. residence room n. ΚΠ 1857 G. M. Musgrave Pilgr. Dauphiné I. i. 10 A high walled enclosure, at one angle of which stood a sort of observatory, with residence rooms attached. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 July 16/1 The residence rooms will be so designed and furnished as [etc.]. 1955 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 55 1203/3 All the residence rooms in the new building were attractively furnished. 2000 P. A. Bramadat Church on World's Turf vii. 133 The congested residence rooms in which we lived meant that the interpersonal difficulties that emerge among any small group of travelers went largely unresolved. residence street n. ΚΠ 1865 S. Bowles Across Continent xxvi. 289 The only way to get up and down the others with a horse, is to go zig-zag from one side to the other. Some of the principal residence streets are after this fashion. 1915 Munic. Jrnl. 14 Jan. 40/1 It was learned that Cleveland was using on residence streets a softer sandstone from the Berea and Amherst quarries. 1997 Tulsa (Oklahoma) World (Nexis) 17 Dec. 5 He also saw residence streets bordered by luxurious mansions and comfortable cottages. residence town n. ΚΠ 1817 C. H. Gifford Hist. Wars occasioned by French Revol. I. viii. ix. 677 The supreme junta..ordered..all the generals who were in this residence town..to attend them. 1883 Cent. Mag. July 335/2 Titusville..is the favourite residence town of prosperous brokers. 1986 A. R. David Pyramid Builders Anc. Egypt (2003) viii. 195 Kahun continued to flourish throughout the 12th Dynasty and into the 13th Dynasty, and was a place of much greater significance than that afforded to a mere pyramid workmen's residence town. C2. residence city n. [after German Residenzstadt Residenzstadt n.] a seat of a royal or princely court; cf. Residenz n. ΚΠ 1825 in T. Sharp Life John Sharp I. 201 There was, in the whole kingdom, only one high priest who was always with the king in the residence city. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vi. vi. 101 He is not to fight with the Hanoverians; is delicately but effectually to shove them well away from the Residence Cities. 1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. xiii. 386 The chief new cities built from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century were ‘residence cities’ for kings and princes, like Versailles, Karlsruhe, and Potsdam. 2004 Jrnl. Contemp. Hist. 39 174 The superbly stage-managed display in the old residence city of Prussian kings..was an important step towards transforming Hitler from a partisan party leader into a ‘statesman’. residence counsellor n. North American a pastoral adviser attached to a residential block in a university. ΚΠ 1944 Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gaz. 11 Aug. 8/5 Miss Norton was recently elected residence counsellor at Stephens' college for young ladies. 1973 Pennsylvania Voice 10 Oct. 5/1 A residence counselor who has been dealing with a student may feel that he is not properly equipped to help the student resolve his problem. 1995 Canad. Jrnl. Educ. 20 441 In addition to the quantitative data provided by these measures, qualitative information was gathered from the students and their teachers and residence counsellors. residence-general n. [after French Résidence générale (1885 or earlier), spec. use of résidence générale headquarters (1822 or earlier); compare résident général senior representative in a French protectorate (1856 or earlier; 1800 or earlier with reference to 17th cent. royal envoys within France)] now historical the official residency of the senior French representative in a French protectorate. ΚΠ 1918 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 17 107 Temporary setting up of Residence-General and administrative services at Rabat. 1955 Times 9 May 8/4 The crowd..had tried to break into the residence-general. 2007 R. C. Keller Colonial Madness 32 In 1921, the residence-general [in Tunisia] attempted to determine ‘the numbers of individuals susceptible of forming the population of the envisaged asylum’. residence hall n. = sense 4c. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > students' residence hospital1536 hostel1536 pensionary1583 inn1655 hotel1748 residence1828 bursa1831 residence hall1857 dormitory1865 hall1879 hospice1895 hospitium1895 1857 Times 23 Feb. 7/5 The want of residence halls, the want of preparatory schools, and, above all, the preposterously extensive character of the curriculum. 1915 J. M. Taylor & E. H. Haight Vassar vii. 175 Students had begun to come in larger numbers and the new residence hall was filled at once. 2007 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 107/2 Keeping whores out of Harvard residence halls had to do with the honor of Harvard. residence order n. chiefly British (a) (frequently with modifying adjective) a court order restricting or directing where a person may live; (b) spec. a court order specifying where and with whom a child should live. ΚΠ 1961 Plebs Aug. 464/1 I do not know Brother Barrett personally because at the time of his visit I was still under a restricted residence order in the Northern Provinces. 1968 Times 26 June 1/1 (heading) Enforced residence orders revoked. 1988 Guardian 27 July 3/1 To replace custody and access orders, the commission suggests a new residence order laying down the child's living arrangements. 2005 Gay Times Dec. 33/1 A Residence Order decides where a child will live, while a Contact Order establishes the amount and type of contact the child will have with his or her other parent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † residencen.² Forms: 1500s resedence, 1500s resydence, 1500s resydens, 1500s–1600s residence, 1600s recidence. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French residence. Etymology: < Middle French residence (French †résidence ) residue (1314 in Old French), settling of sediments (1570 in the passage translated in quot. 1600 at sense 3), sediment (second half of the 16th cent. in Paré with reference to urine, a1593 in more general sense) < residentia sediment (first half of the 13th cent. in British sources), residue (1312 in Mondeville) < classical Latin resīdent- , resīdens , present participle of resīdere reside v.² + -ia -ia suffix¹. Compare -ence suffix. Compare later reside v.² Obsolete. 1. a. Matter which settles as a deposit in a liquid; sediment. Also in plural.Very common in the 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being solid rather than fluid > [noun] > solid matter which falls to bottom of liquid drega1300 groundsa1340 upon the lee1390 foundersc1450 residence1539 sediment1547 resident1558 precipitate1594 settling1594 precipitation1605 crassament1615 subsistence1622 subsidence1646 sedimen1655 crassamentum1657 deposit1781 sludge1839 ppt1864 1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) iii. xviii. f. 75 Naturall melancolye is (as Galene saythe) the resydence or dregges of the bloud. 1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) iv. ix. f. 84^v The groundes or residences [in urine]..be lyke unto plates..and may be named platy residence, in latyne Laminea. 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 32 I may not here omit to commend the..residence and groundes of all Channels,..Rivers and Ditches. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 341 The Ocean..is now so farre excluded by reason of sandy residence inbealched with the tides. 1662 C. Merrett tr. A. Neri Art of Glass xxxviii Powder the dregs and residences of the Aqua-fortis. 1685 R. Boyle Short Mem. Hist. Mineral Waters 71 The Spontaneous residence, if I may so call it, that the Liquor lets fall by meer standing. b. The residuum or deposit left after any chemical process. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical processes (general) > that which remains after residence1555 residue1586 manna1694 sublimate1822 1555 R. Eden tr. V. Biringucci Pyrotechnia in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 328 To take such waters..and..cause them to boyle and vapoure away vntyll the dregs or residence remayne in the bottome. 1658 R. White tr. K. Digby Late Disc. Cure Wounds (1660) 122 Cause it to be boyled untill it come to an evaporation and see its residence. 1693 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 635 Being gently distill'd off, it left a residence. 2. Remains, leftovers. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > leavings after main part exhausted leaving1340 leavingc1350 beleavingc1440 residence?1545 afterings1609 refuse1665 fleeting-milka1670 tailings1764 rinsing1812 ?1545 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture sig. Bii^v Put your trencher in the voyder and also the resydens. 1562 P. Whitehorne Certain Waies Orderyng Souldiers f. 30, in tr. N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre If the poulder bee good, you shall see theim all to fire at tones [sic]: so that there shal be no residence remaining. 3. The settling of sediment in liquids. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > sinking down > sinking or submerging in liquid > sinking of solid matter in liquid residence1600 subsidence1656 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vi. iv. 734 Vntill such time as the earth haue made his perfect residence and setling [Fr. que la terre face residence] in the bottome of the glasse. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §302 Separation..is wrought by Weight; as in the ordinary Residence or Settlement of Liquors. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician viii. 303 Boil the Colature, defæcated by residence to half. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † residencev. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: residence n.¹ Etymology: < residence n.¹ (probably compare residence n.¹ 4a and 6), the intended metaphor probably being that a matter is placed in its appropriate residence or context. Obsolete. rare. transitive. Probably: to settle, establish, or bring home the true character or ulterior significance of; to place in context. ΚΠ 1611 W. Sclater Key 260 He shewes that these things were in many but vaine bragges; residencing their vaine boasting fitly to the fashion of our people. a1627 W. Sclater Brief Comm. Malachy (1650) 47 Wherein the Prophet even residenceth the speeches of these hypocriticall Jews. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.¹1398n.²1539v.1611
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