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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,191 words match “ABIT”

A dweller; an inhabitant. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

HABITED p. 3 definitions

Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd.

HABITUAL a. 2 definitions

Formed or acquired by habit or use. An habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims. South.

HABITUATE v. 3 definitions

To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. Our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime. Sir K. Digby. Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices. Tillotson.

The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.

HABITUDE n. 3 definitions

Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations. South. The same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to another. Locke. The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else than habitudes of thinking. Landor.

One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitué of a theater.

Habitude. [Obs.]

Habitude; mode of life; general appearance.

INHABIT v. 2 definitions

To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses. The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15. O, who would inhabit This bleak world alone Moore.

INHABITABLE a. 2 definitions

Capable of being inhabited; habitable. Systems of inhabitable planets. Locke.

INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY n. 2 definitions

The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; the condition of an inhabitant; residence; occupancy. Ruins yet resting in the wild moors testify a former inhabitance. Carew.

INHABITANT n. 2 definitions

es permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city, county, or state. "Frail inhabitants of earth." Cowper. In this place, they report that they saw inhabitants which were very fair and fat people. Abp. Abbot.

To inhabit. [Obs.]

INHABITATION n. 3 definitions

The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson.

INHABITATIVENESS n.

A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.

Uninhabited. [Obs.] Brathwait.

An inhabitant. [R.] Derham.

INHABITIVENESS n.

See Inhabitativeness. What the phrenologists call inhabitiveness. Lowell.

A female inhabitant. [R.]