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cohabitation|kəʊhæbɪˈteɪʃən|
[a. F. cohabitation, ad. late L. cohabitātiōn-em a dwelling together, f. cohabitāre to cohabit.]
1. Dwelling or living together; community of life. arch. (or distinguished from 2 by use of hyphen and secondary stress on co-).
c1450Mirour Saluacioun 944 The womman Sunamyte dredde the cohabitacionne of Elye. 1555Coverdale (title), Treatise of the cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful. 1645Milton Tetrach. (1851) 163 He is not bid to leave the dear cohabitation of his father, mother, brothers and sisters. 1728Newton Chronol. Amended ii. 210 Oannes taught the Chaldæans..Cohabitation in Cities. 1856Olmsted Slave States 17, I am struck with the close co-habitation and association of black and white.
b. transf. and fig.
1551Cranmer Answ. Bp. Gardiner 353 (T.) Nestorius graunted two natures in Christ, yet..by cohabitation or inhabitation, so that he made but one Christ. 1656Jeanes Fuln. Christ 164 The cohabitation of the Godhead with the manhood, in the person of Christ. 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 329 The Alga which is the host of the Fungus become[s] modified in consequence of the cohabitation.
†c. Clustering as a community. Obs.
1662Petty Taxes 28 While ever there are people in England, the greatest cohabitation of them will be about the place which is now London.
2. Living together as husband and wife (often with the implication of not being married: see cohabit v. 2).
1548Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 23 §2 Sentence for Matrimony, commanding Solemnization, Cohabitation, Consummation, and Tractation. 1631Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 54 After this was the cohabitation continued and the children borne as before mentioned. 1690Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 54 For..holding correspondence and cohabitation with one not his wife. 1751Chambers Cycl., Co-habitation, implies a concubinage, or a copulation, or carnal knowledge, between two persons. 1751Jortin Eccl. Hist. (1845) I. xxxi. 422 The cohabitation of slaves was not called by the name of marriage. 1824Coleridge Aids Refl. 28 A large number of legal cohabitations have little claim to the name of Christian marriages.
†b. Sexual intercourse. Obs.
1579Fenton Guicciard. i. (1599) 38 The death of Galeas happened by immoderate cohabitacion.
Hence cohabiˈtational a.
1949Koestler Promise & Fulfilment v. 284 This is the first coeducational—or rather cohabitational—prison in the world. 1984Daily Express 18 July 21/2 He took their co-habitational problems—they're both fed up with each other's wally ways—to a marriage guidance counsellor.
Add:3. Pol. Co-operation between members (esp. a President and Prime Minister) of opposing parties, orig. in France; an instance of this. (Sometimes pronounced as a Fr. word and printed in italics.)
1978Washington Post 23 Mar. a 23/1 Giscard said it was time to achieve ‘a reasonable cohabitation’ between the majority and the opposition in France. 1985Economist 9 Feb. (Survey Suppl.: France) 20/1 Mr Barre rules out any talk of cohabitation with Mr Mitterand. 1986Economist 5 Apr. 57/3 Like France, Portugal is adjusting to the ‘cohabitation’ of a Socialist president and a Conservative prime minister. 1987Times 7 Apr. 15/3 There is evidence that cohabitation may, with time, erode France's considerable diplomatic influence. |