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▪ I. † inˈhabited, a. Obs. [f. in-3 + habited ppl. a.] Not dwelt in; uninhabited.
1614R. Brathwait Surv. Hist. (R.), Others..have frequented desarts and inhabited provinces. a1621Beaum. & Fl. Thierry & Theod. iii. i, Leave The earth inhabited to people Heaven. Hence † inˈhabitedness1, uninhabited condition.
1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. iii. (1673) 99/1 It hath the name..from the vast Desarts which are in it, and the inhabitedness thereof. ▪ II. inhabited, ppl. a.|ɪnˈhæbɪtɪd| [f. inhabit v. + -ed1.] a. Dwelt in; having inhabitants.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 118 [It] had in it three hundreth and seven houses inhabited. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xiii. (1848) 249 The remotest Parts of the Inhabited World. 1796Southey Lett. fr. Sp. & Portugal (1799) 132 It can hardly be supposed that a banditti would attack in an inhabited place. 1851Act 14 & 15 Vict. c. 36 §1 The Duties on Inhabited Dwelling Houses..should be assessed and levied according to the annual Value of such Dwelling Houses. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 118 Whether the air of inhabited rooms is properly pure. b. Historiated, e.g. inhabited scroll, an arabesque pattern of foliage in which figures, birds, etc., appear.
1952D. T. Rice Eng. Art 871–1100 v. 149 On [a font] at Alphington in Devon there is an inhabited scroll border which suggests the influence of a manuscript of late-eleventh-century type. 1954M. Rickert Painting in Brit.: Middle Ages ii. 36 This motif..is worked into running scroll patterns enclosing at intervals lively figures of birds and animals—the so-called inhabited scroll. 1959Listener 1 Oct. 538/3 The exuberance of a St. Alban's inhabited scroll. 1970M. Swanton Dream of Rood 12 The narrower sides of the shaft are more purely decorative, carved with the so-called ‘inhabited vine-scroll’. This is a Middle Eastern motif deriving from models like the Ravenna throne. Hence inˈhabitedness2, inhabited condition. In mod. Dicts. |