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▪ I. † inˈhabitable, a.1 Obs.
[a. F. inhabitable (1372 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. inhabitābilis, f. in- (in-3) + habitābilis habitable.]
Not habitable, not adapted to human habitation, uninhabitable.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xvii. 78 Beyond Mauritayne..es a grete cuntree, but it es inhabitable by cause of þe owtrage hete of þe sonne. 1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) iii. xxix. 326 a/1 The londe was inhabytable for the sterylyte & baraynes therof. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. i. 65 Euen to the frozen ridges of the Alpes, Or any other ground inhabitable. 1647Trapp Mellif. Theol. in Comm. Ep. 697 Archimedes..bragged, that he could number the sand in all the world, habitable and inhabitable. 1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland 16 People towards the North, living in a Clime almost inhabitable. 1742Francis Horace, Odes i. iii. 24 Jove has the Realms of Earth in vain Divided by th' inhabitable Main.
b. catachr. Uninhabited.
1529S. Fish Suppl. Beggers (E.E.T.S.) 6 These be they that..do let the generation of the people, wherby all the realme..shall be made desert and inhabitable. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 31 In the beginning, before the world was impeopled, men comming into huge and wast places inhabitable. 1609Bible (Douay) Jer. xlviii. 9 Her cities shal be desolate and inhabitable.
Hence † inˌhabitaˈbility1, the quality of being uninhabitable.
1684T. Burnet Th. Earth i. 266 Nothing seems more remarkable than the inhabitability of the torrid zone, if we consider what a general belief it had amongst the ancients.
▪ II. inhabitable, a.2|ɪnˈhæbɪtəb(ə)l|
[f. inhabit + -able: cf. late L. inhabitābilis (Arnob.).]
Capable of being inhabited, occupied, or tenanted.
1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 181 Lordes of..all the inhabitable places in that vast Archipelago. a1631Donne Lament. Jeremy iv. xii, All which live In the inhabitable world. 1654‘Palaemon’ Friendship 23 A Soul..inhabitable by a clear and sublime Friendship. 1794Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXXV. 68 If stars are suns, and suns are inhabitable, we see at once what an extensive field for animation opens itself to our view. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. vii. 186 Their new convent was dilapidated, and scarcely inhabitable.
Hence inˌhabitaˈbility2, the quality of being inhabitable; inˈhabitableness (Bailey vol. II).
1865Pall Mall G. 20 May 11 Professor Whewell publishes his Plurality of Worlds, arguing against their inhabitability. |