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habitation|hæbɪˈteɪʃən|
Also 4 abitacioun.
[a. F. habi-, abitation (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. habitātiōn-em, f. habitāre to dwell, inhabit.
‘‘Habitacion’ in whiche h is written and nat sounded with us.’ Palsgr. 1530, p. 17.]
1. The action of dwelling in or inhabiting as a place of residence; occupancy by inhabitants.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. pr. vii. 44 (Camb. MS.) A ryht streyt place to the habytasyoun of men. c1386― Monk's T. 226 He was out cast of mannes compaignye With asses was his habitacioun. c1410Hoccleve Mother of God 137 The habitacion Of the holy goost..Be in myn herte. 1568Grafton (title) A Chronicle..deduced from the Creation of the Worlde, unto the first habitation of thys Islande. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 622 Every Starr perhaps a World Of destind habitation. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World (1757) 55 Excepting the plantations, and places of habitation. 1897Daily Chron. 1 Feb. 7/4 The premises to be closed..until they were made fit for human habitation.
2. concr.
a. A place of abode or residence: either the region or country inhabited, or (now more usually) a house, cave, or other particular dwelling-place of man or animal.
1382Wyclif Acts i. 20 The habitacioun [1388 abitacioun] of him be maad desert, and be there not that dwellith in it. c1477Caxton Jason 70 b, Hit pleseth me right well that this noble countre be your habitacion. 1598Barret Theor. Warres v. ii. 129 Whether the most habitations of the Citie be on high above the alture of the wals. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 67 They had no Cities, nor setled Habitations, but liv'd in Woods. 1665Hooke Microgr. 138 These indeed, seem'd to have been the habitation of some Animal. 1748F. Smith Voy. Disc. I. 184 The Habitations of the Indians (which we call Cabbins or Tents) are sufficiently wretched. 1859W. Collins Q. of Hearts (1875) 44 The nearest habitation to ours was situated about a mile and a half off. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. iii. 246 To render the planet a comfortable habitation for beings constituted like ourselves.
fig.1535Coverdale Hab. iii. 11 The Sonne and Mone remayned still in their habitacion. 1548–77Vicary Anat. iii. (1888) 24 The head of man is the habitation or dwelling place of the reasonable soule. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. iii. 89 An habitation giddy, and vnsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.
†b. The Jewish tabernacle. Obs.
1535Coverdale Num. vii. 1 Whan Moses had set vp the Habitacion and anoynted it, and sanctifyed it.
3. The name adopted for local branches of the ‘Primrose League’, a political association established in 1883. (Said to have been suggested by that of ‘lodge’, used by Masonic societies; cf. also ‘tent’, ‘grove’, and the like, similarly used.)
1885Primrose League 13 As a Diploma is issued to every Member, Habitations must be careful to send in the Declarations of every Knight, Dame, or Associate to the Registrar for enrolment. 1892Primrose League in Albemarle Rev. Jan. 11 The first Habitation started was for the district of the Strand. Ibid. 13 In drawing up the rules it was sought..to give the affair rather a Masonic character..Accordingly the local committee was called a Habitation. 1895Times 15 Nov. 6/1 A meeting of the Arthur Balfour Habitation of the Primrose League.
4. A settlement. [After F. habitation.]
1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 45 The interpretacion of certeyne wordes. Colonie, an habitacion. [1809Kendall Trav. I. ii. 9 In Europe, we speak of settlements, either in a more general sense than colonies, or as included within colonies. The French call them Habitations.] 1825Waterton Wand. S. Amer. i. i. 101 From Simon's to the great fall there are five habitations of the Indians..These habitations consist of from four to eight huts situated on about an acre of ground.
5. Comb. habitation name, a place-name in which at least one of the elements denotes an inhabited place; habitation site Archæol., a site where there has been a settlement.
1936Oxf. Dict. Eng. Place-Names p. xv, Near habitation-names stand names that originally denoted a pasture-ground or a shelter for the protection of animals, a cowhouse, a cattle-fold, etc. 1962H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon England i. 9 There are more British habitation names in the region.
1925Antiquaries Jrnl. Apr. 182 The author has more leisure to examine Meare, a similar habitation-site three miles distant. 1942Oxoniensia VII. 106 The B-beaker and neolithic sherds were drift-sherds from one of the many habitation-sites..in the neighbourhood. 1962H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon England i. 15 This is not to deny the possibility of continuity in habitation sites at places such as London or York. 1971World Archaeol. III. 141 Some of the shelters may have been habitation sites in the past. |