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inmate, n. (a.)|ˈɪnmeɪt|
[f. in adv. 12 a (or perh. orig. inn n. 1) + mate n.]
1. In relation to other persons: One who is the mate or associate of another or others in the same dwelling; one who dwells with others in a house. (Now rare.) In early use, One admitted for a consideration to reside in a house occupied or rented by another; a lodger or subtenant.
In the 16th and 17th c. there were stringent statutes and by-laws against the harbouring of poor persons as ‘inmates’, subtenants, or lodgers, a practice which tended to increase the number of paupers locally chargeable.
1589Act 31 Eliz. c. 7 §6 There shall not be any Inmate or more Famylies or Housholdes then one, dwellinge or inhabitinge in anye one Cottage. 1597–1602Transcript W. Riding Sessions Rolls (Rec. Ser.) 86 Whosoever..doth take any Inmate..shall releefe and keepe them from beggyng. 1601Nottingham Rec. IV. 260 Taking an inmate in to his hous. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. i. (1701) 39/1 Bias was of Priene..some affirm he was rich, others that he had no Estate, but lived as an Inmate. 1676tr. Guillatiere's Voy. Athens 86 In those Countries, the Master and his Cattle are Inmates, and lye higgledy piggledy in the same room. 1690Child Disc. Trade (1694) 95 As for the laws against Inmates, and empowering the Parishioners to take security before they suffer any poor person to inhabit amongst them..I am sure in cities and great towns of trade they are altogether improper, and contrary to the practice of other cities and trading towns abroad. 1832H. Martineau Hill & Valley iv. 68 Mrs. Sydney inquired whether he was a pleasant inmate and a kind neighbour.
b. Sometimes, One not originally or properly belonging to the place where he dwells; a foreigner, stranger. Often fig.
a1600Hooker Serm. Justif. §2 note, Some critical wits may perhaps half suspect that these two words, per se, are inmates. But if the place which they have be their own, their sense can be none other than that which I have given them. 1611B. Jonson Catiline ii. ii, He is but a new fellow, An in-mate here in Rome (as Catiline calls him). a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts (1684) 139 Though the English [language] swell with the inmates of Italian, French, and Latin. 1692tr. Sallust 352 Not an Upstart, an Inn-mate, and but lately admitted to the Privileges of this City.
2. In relation to the house or dwelling-place: An occupant along with others, one of the family or company who occupy a house or other abode; hence sometimes simply = Indweller, inhabitant, occupier. Const. of. (lit. and fig.)
1597Daniel Civ. Wars viii. lxxi, Within her brow..sat scorn; Shame in her cheeks; where also fear became An inmate too. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 34 Religion which before had bin a privat in-mate in Adams houshold, was now..publike exercise. c1630Drummond of Hawthornden Poems 22 You inmates of the Woods. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 495 So spake the Enemie of Mankind, enclos'd In Serpent, Inmate bad. 1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland 115 All the feathered In-mates of the sky. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 892 If thou guard it's [the heart's] sacred chambers sure From vicious inmates and delights impure. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxxvi, It had readily opened its gates to admit the noble lady who was its present inmate. 1834Medwin Angler in Wales II. 261 An inmate of a lunatic asylum. 1876Gladstone Homeric Synchr. 200 Twelve were married inmates of his palace.
B. attrib. or adj. That is an inmate (lit. or fig.); dwelling in the same house with, or in the house of, another; dwelling within, indwelling. ? Obs.
1630Sanderson Serm., Ad Mag. ii. (1681) II. 272 In the famous case of the two inmate Harlots, whereof King Solomon had the hearing. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 166 A sequent King, who seeks To stop thir overgrowth, as in⁓mate guests Too numerous. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 41 Tis usual now, an Inmate Graff to see With insolence invade a Foreign Tree. 1773–83Hoole Orl. Fur. vi. 210 Unknowing, that beneath thy rugged rind Conceal'd, an inmate spirit lay confin'd. 1806R. Cumberland Mem. (1807) II. 185 The children, who were inmate with me when I settled at Tunbridge Wells.
Hence inmatecy |ˈɪnmeɪtsɪ| [irreg.: see -cy], the position of an inmate; ˈinmated ppl. a., located as an inmate; ˈinmateless a., without an inmate.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 411 Even those who associated with the sick, were seldom affected unless inmated in their rooms. 1830‘Jon Bee’ Ess. Foote in Foote's Wks. I. p. clxvii. note, Thither [to the Fleet-Prison] the Doctor repaired..and found our laughing philosopher in the usual plight of such an inmatecy, poor and pennyless. 1835Lytton Rienzi vi. ii, The cottages..were some shut up..some open, but seemingly inmateless. |