inhabitv.

Brit.

/ɪnˈhabɪt/, U.S.

/ᵻnˈhæbət/

Forms: α. Middle English–1500s enhabit(e, Middle English enhabyte, enhabete. β. Middle English–1600s inhabite, Middle English inhabet(t, inhabete, Middle English–1500s inhabyt(e, 1500s inabite, 1500s– inhabit. past participle en-, inhabited; also Middle English–1600s enhabit, inhabit, inhabite.

Etymology: < Old French enhabiter (12th cent. in Godefroy) to dwell, dwell in, < Latin inhabitāre , < in- (in- prefix³) + habitāre to dwell: see habit v.

a. transitive. To dwell in, occupy as an abode; to live permanently or habitually in (a region, element, etc.); to reside in (a country, town, dwelling, etc.). Said of men and animals.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (transitive)]

wonOE

erdeOE

inwonea1300

inhabitc1374

indwell1382

occupya1387

biga1400

endwellc1420

possessc1450

purprise1481

people1490

dwell1520

accompany?c1525

replenishc1540

populate1578

habit1580

inhabitate1600

tenant1635

improvec1650

manure1698

α.

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) ii. pr. vii. 44 The ferthe partye ys enhabited with lyuynge bestys þat we knowen.

1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 84 This cite is enhabited with women withoute king.

?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Aiij That other yland is not enhabite.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 101 An yle enabit..With a maner of men, mermydons callid.

β. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 324 The citee..Of worthy folk..Was inhabited here and there.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vii. 23 The land of [Egipte] es lang, bot it es narowe: for men may noȝt inhabit it on brede for desertes.1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 174 London..is inhabited with men of everye facultie.1611 Bible (King James) Isa. lxv. 21 They shall build houses, and inhabit them. 1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 10 This bird inhabits all the northern parts of Europe.1881 Athenæum No. 2777. 97 The pelagie fishes, or those which inhabit the mid ocean.

b. transferred (of inanimate things), and figurative.

ΚΠ

a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) ii. f. xxvi^v More perfyte religyons, whiche be to the seruauntes of god that inhabyte them, as the arke of Noe.

1611 Bible (King James) Isa. lvii. 15 The High and loftie One that inhabiteth eternitie.

1651 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa I. i. i. 2 Those charmes, which in spight of fortunes cruelties, did yet inhabit his face.

1807 Salmagundi 2 June 221 The same echo inhabited the valley.

a. intransitive. To dwell, live; to have one's abode; to abide, lodge. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)]

wonc725

erdec893

siteOE

liveeOE

to make one's woningc960

through-wonOE

bigc1175

walkc1225

inwonea1300

lenda1300

lenga1300

lingera1300

erthec1300

stallc1315

lasta1325

lodge1362

habit?a1366

breeda1375

inhabitc1374

indwella1382

to have one's mansionc1385

to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400

keepc1400

repairc1400

to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405

to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425

winc1425

to make (one's) residence1433

resort1453

abidec1475

use1488

remaina1500

demur1523

to keep one's house1523

occupy1523

reside1523

enerdc1540

kennel1552

bower1596

to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597

subsist1618

mansiona1638

tenant1650

fastena1657

hospitate1681

wont1692

stay1754

to hang out1811

home1832

habitate1866

α.

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) i. pr. v. 15 Who so þat leteth the wyl for to enhabyte there.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. x. 188 Eremites þat en-habiten by þe heye weyes.

c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) i. xxvii. 102 This knight enhabitid in a woode.

1537 Act 27 Hen. VIII in R. Bolton Statutes Ireland (1621) 175 Every person and persons enhabiting within this land.

β. a1400–50 Alexander 4020 An Ile, Quare þir Exidraces as Ermets inhabet in caues.1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xxix. 54/1 In all places of India, where the Portingales inhabite.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 355 Thither let us bend all our thoughts, to learn What creatures there inhabit . 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 511 The Senecas inhabit on the Chenesee or Genessee river.1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 118 But till notice sound, Inhabit we in ease and opulence!

b. transferred and figurative. To dwell, abide.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > position or situation > be positioned or situated [verb (intransitive)]

resteOE

standOE

sitOE

liec1121

inhabitc1384

settlea1400

couchc1400

biga1425

loutc1460

residea1475

innc1475

contain1528

consist1542

seatc1580

situate1583

lodge1610

site1616

subsist1618

station1751

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Coloss. i. 19 In hym it pleside to gidere al plente for to inhabite.

c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. lxxxviii. 50 The hous is..lasse than the good that enhabiteth ther inne.

c1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xxxiv. i In my mouth contynually Inhabit shall his praise.

a1625 J. Fletcher Mad Lover iii. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. C3/1 Her eye inhabits on him.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 43 See, on the Shore inhabits purple Spring.

1824 Westm. Rev. 1 4 It dignifies every thought that inhabits with it.

†3.

a. transitive. To occupy or people (a place). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > colonizing > colonize (a place) [verb (transitive)]

inhabit1390

planta1513

colonizea1626

colony1649

seat1684

settle1702

colonialize1971

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 278 Nations seventy and two, In sondry place eche one of tho [nations] The wide world have enhabited.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy (1555) i. i Thus gan he praye..His lande tenhabite which standeth desolate.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 43 The Iberians..dwelt neare to Meotis: certaine Colonies of them inhabited Spaine, and called it Hiberia.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxiv. 131 ‘Plantations’, or ‘colonies’, which are numbers of men sent out..to inhabit a Forraign Country..void of inhabitants.

†b. To people with, to furnish with (inhabitants). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > [verb (transitive)]

set971

publish?a1400

inhabitc1400

seedc1400

man?a1425

peoplea1475

peoplish1530

repletec1540

empeople1582

popule1588

world1589

appopulate1625

populate1885

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xii. 52 Þis castell gert Bawdewyne make.. and inhabited it with Cristen men.

c1515 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) II. 11 He dyd conquyre all the lande,..and dyd inhabyte the same with Englyshe folke.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 534 Cities..which afterwardes they did inhabite with their owne citizens.

†4.

a. To establish or settle (a person, etc.) in a place, to furnish with a habitation; to locate, house; reflexive to establish oneself, take up one's abode; passive, to be domiciled or resident.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (reflexive)]

lenda1300

nesta1400

lodgec1400

inhabit1413

repair1509

settle1551

stay1558

plant1560

seat1603

society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)]

couchc1400

inhabit1413

seat1586

fix1638

haft1728

domiciliate1778

home1802

domicile1809

settle1853

adopt1897

1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxxiv. 8 Suche as ben enheryted and enhabyted in the same Countre.

a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. clxxxvi^v/1 Eulalius..yede his waye to enhabyte him selfe in the deserte within a caue.

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xviii. liii. 812 Amptes..make hepys and hylles in whom they enhabyte themself in.

1496 Act 12 Hen. VII c. 6 The Merchauntes Adventurers inhabite and dwelling in divers parties of this Realme of Englond.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clv. f. lxxxiii^v He after inhabyted them in dyuerse placis of his Realme.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 158 Many of the Citizens..voyded the Citie,..and inhabited themselues in diuerse places of the realme.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iii. 7 O knowledge ill inhabited, worse then Ioue in a thatch'd house.

†b. intransitive (for reflexive). To take up one's abode, settle. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence

wickc897

telda1325

buildc1340

nestlea1382

to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400

to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425

to take one's lodgec1475

reside1490

inhabit1548

to settle one's rest1562

to sit down1579

to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584

to set (up) one's rest1590

nest1591

to set down one's rest1591

roost1593

inherit1600

habituate1603

seat1612

to take up (one's) residencea1626

settle1627

pitch1629

fix1638

locate1652

to marry and settle1718

domesticate1768

domiciliate1815

to hang up one's hat1826

domicile1831

to stick one's stakes1872

homestead1877

to put down roots1882

to hang one's hat1904

localize1930

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xxxvi After whiche victory certaine souldiers..passed ouer the water of Sala and there inhabited, betwene the riuers.

1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza in G. T. Staunton Hist. China (1853) I. i. iii. 12 Perswaded..that those which did first finde and inhabite in this lande, were the nevewes of Noe.

†c. figurative (in past participle= (?) Established, located, allotted; addicted, devoted). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 415 (443) She þat I serue,..To whom myn herte enhabit [v.r. enabitid] is by right, Shal han me holly hires til þat I dye.

Derivatives

inˈhabiting adj. indwelling.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective]

residentc1384

indwelling14..

lentc1400

resiant1433

mansionary1447

inhabitant1526

commorantc1534

demurrant1544

ledger1577

couchant1602

inhabitinga1617

residentiary1640

residenting1650

habitant1856

a1617 P. Baynes Comm. First & Second Chapters Colossians (1634) 258 Now the inhabiting and the inhabited are not confounded.

1844 W. H. Mill Serm. Tempt. Christ ii. 42 To restore this inhabiting Presence to Man.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	inhabit
释义	inhabitv. Brit. /ɪnˈhabɪt/, U.S. /ᵻnˈhæbət/ Forms: α. Middle English–1500s enhabit(e, Middle English enhabyte, enhabete. β. Middle English–1600s inhabite, Middle English inhabet(t, inhabete, Middle English–1500s inhabyt(e, 1500s inabite, 1500s– inhabit. past participle en-, inhabited; also Middle English–1600s enhabit, inhabit, inhabite. Etymology: < Old French enhabiter (12th cent. in Godefroy) to dwell, dwell in, < Latin inhabitāre , < in- (in- prefix³) + habitāre to dwell: see habit v. 1. a. transitive. To dwell in, occupy as an abode; to live permanently or habitually in (a region, element, etc.); to reside in (a country, town, dwelling, etc.). Said of men and animals. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (transitive)] wonOE erdeOE inwonea1300 inhabitc1374 indwell1382 occupya1387 biga1400 endwellc1420 possessc1450 purprise1481 people1490 dwell1520 accompany?c1525 replenishc1540 populate1578 habit1580 inhabitate1600 tenant1635 improvec1650 manure1698 α. c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) ii. pr. vii. 44 The ferthe partye ys enhabited with lyuynge bestys þat we knowen. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 84 This cite is enhabited with women withoute king. ?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Aiij That other yland is not enhabite. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 101 An yle enabit..With a maner of men, mermydons callid. β. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 324 The citee..Of worthy folk..Was inhabited here and there.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vii. 23 The land of [Egipte] es lang, bot it es narowe: for men may noȝt inhabit it on brede for desertes.1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 174 London..is inhabited with men of everye facultie.1611 Bible (King James) Isa. lxv. 21 They shall build houses, and inhabit them. View more context for this quotation1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 10 This bird inhabits all the northern parts of Europe.1881 Athenæum No. 2777. 97 The pelagie fishes, or those which inhabit the mid ocean. b. transferred (of inanimate things), and figurative. ΚΠ a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) ii. f. xxvi^v More perfyte religyons, whiche be to the seruauntes of god that inhabyte them, as the arke of Noe. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. lvii. 15 The High and loftie One that inhabiteth eternitie. View more context for this quotation 1651 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa I. i. i. 2 Those charmes, which in spight of fortunes cruelties, did yet inhabit his face. 1807 Salmagundi 2 June 221 The same echo inhabited the valley. 2. a. intransitive. To dwell, live; to have one's abode; to abide, lodge. archaic. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] wonc725 erdec893 siteOE liveeOE to make one's woningc960 through-wonOE bigc1175 walkc1225 inwonea1300 lenda1300 lenga1300 lingera1300 erthec1300 stallc1315 lasta1325 lodge1362 habit?a1366 breeda1375 inhabitc1374 indwella1382 to have one's mansionc1385 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 keepc1400 repairc1400 to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 winc1425 to make (one's) residence1433 resort1453 abidec1475 use1488 remaina1500 demur1523 to keep one's house1523 occupy1523 reside1523 enerdc1540 kennel1552 bower1596 to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597 subsist1618 mansiona1638 tenant1650 fastena1657 hospitate1681 wont1692 stay1754 to hang out1811 home1832 habitate1866 α. c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) i. pr. v. 15 Who so þat leteth the wyl for to enhabyte there. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. x. 188 Eremites þat en-habiten by þe heye weyes. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) i. xxvii. 102 This knight enhabitid in a woode. 1537 Act 27 Hen. VIII in R. Bolton Statutes Ireland (1621) 175 Every person and persons enhabiting within this land. β. a1400–50 Alexander 4020 An Ile, Quare þir Exidraces as Ermets inhabet in caues.1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xxix. 54/1 In all places of India, where the Portingales inhabite.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 355 Thither let us bend all our thoughts, to learn What creatures there inhabit . View more context for this quotation1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 511 The Senecas inhabit on the Chenesee or Genessee river.1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 118 But till notice sound, Inhabit we in ease and opulence! b. transferred and figurative. To dwell, abide. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > position or situation > be positioned or situated [verb (intransitive)] resteOE standOE sitOE liec1121 inhabitc1384 settlea1400 couchc1400 biga1425 loutc1460 residea1475 innc1475 contain1528 consist1542 seatc1580 situate1583 lodge1610 site1616 subsist1618 station1751 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Coloss. i. 19 In hym it pleside to gidere al plente for to inhabite. c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. lxxxviii. 50 The hous is..lasse than the good that enhabiteth ther inne. c1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xxxiv. i In my mouth contynually Inhabit shall his praise. a1625 J. Fletcher Mad Lover iii. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. C3/1 Her eye inhabits on him. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 43 See, on the Shore inhabits purple Spring. 1824 Westm. Rev. 1 4 It dignifies every thought that inhabits with it. †3. a. transitive. To occupy or people (a place). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > colonizing > colonize (a place) [verb (transitive)] inhabit1390 planta1513 colonizea1626 colony1649 seat1684 settle1702 colonialize1971 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 278 Nations seventy and two, In sondry place eche one of tho [nations] The wide world have enhabited. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy (1555) i. i Thus gan he praye..His lande tenhabite which standeth desolate. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 43 The Iberians..dwelt neare to Meotis: certaine Colonies of them inhabited Spaine, and called it Hiberia. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxiv. 131 ‘Plantations’, or ‘colonies’, which are numbers of men sent out..to inhabit a Forraign Country..void of inhabitants. †b. To people with, to furnish with (inhabitants). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > [verb (transitive)] set971 publish?a1400 inhabitc1400 seedc1400 man?a1425 peoplea1475 peoplish1530 repletec1540 empeople1582 popule1588 world1589 appopulate1625 populate1885 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xii. 52 Þis castell gert Bawdewyne make.. and inhabited it with Cristen men. c1515 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) II. 11 He dyd conquyre all the lande,..and dyd inhabyte the same with Englyshe folke. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 534 Cities..which afterwardes they did inhabite with their owne citizens. †4. a. To establish or settle (a person, etc.) in a place, to furnish with a habitation; to locate, house; reflexive to establish oneself, take up one's abode; passive, to be domiciled or resident. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (reflexive)] lenda1300 nesta1400 lodgec1400 inhabit1413 repair1509 settle1551 stay1558 plant1560 seat1603 society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] couchc1400 inhabit1413 seat1586 fix1638 haft1728 domiciliate1778 home1802 domicile1809 settle1853 adopt1897 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxxiv. 8 Suche as ben enheryted and enhabyted in the same Countre. a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. clxxxvi^v/1 Eulalius..yede his waye to enhabyte him selfe in the deserte within a caue. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xviii. liii. 812 Amptes..make hepys and hylles in whom they enhabyte themself in. 1496 Act 12 Hen. VII c. 6 The Merchauntes Adventurers inhabite and dwelling in divers parties of this Realme of Englond. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clv. f. lxxxiii^v He after inhabyted them in dyuerse placis of his Realme. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 158 Many of the Citizens..voyded the Citie,..and inhabited themselues in diuerse places of the realme. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iii. 7 O knowledge ill inhabited, worse then Ioue in a thatch'd house. View more context for this quotation †b. intransitive (for reflexive). To take up one's abode, settle. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence wickc897 telda1325 buildc1340 nestlea1382 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 to take one's lodgec1475 reside1490 inhabit1548 to settle one's rest1562 to sit down1579 to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584 to set (up) one's rest1590 nest1591 to set down one's rest1591 roost1593 inherit1600 habituate1603 seat1612 to take up (one's) residencea1626 settle1627 pitch1629 fix1638 locate1652 to marry and settle1718 domesticate1768 domiciliate1815 to hang up one's hat1826 domicile1831 to stick one's stakes1872 homestead1877 to put down roots1882 to hang one's hat1904 localize1930 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xxxvi After whiche victory certaine souldiers..passed ouer the water of Sala and there inhabited, betwene the riuers. 1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza in G. T. Staunton Hist. China (1853) I. i. iii. 12 Perswaded..that those which did first finde and inhabite in this lande, were the nevewes of Noe. †c. figurative (in past participle= (?) Established, located, allotted; addicted, devoted). Obsolete. ΚΠ c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iv. 415 (443) She þat I serue,..To whom myn herte enhabit [v.r. enabitid] is by right, Shal han me holly hires til þat I dye. Derivatives inˈhabiting adj. indwelling. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] residentc1384 indwelling14.. lentc1400 resiant1433 mansionary1447 inhabitant1526 commorantc1534 demurrant1544 ledger1577 couchant1602 inhabitinga1617 residentiary1640 residenting1650 habitant1856 a1617 P. Baynes Comm. First & Second Chapters Colossians (1634) 258 Now the inhabiting and the inhabited are not confounded. 1844 W. H. Mill Serm. Tempt. Christ ii. 42 To restore this inhabiting Presence to Man. 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