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he living together of a man and woman in supposed sexual relationship. That the duty of cohabitation is released by the cruelty of one of the parties is admitted. Lord Stowell.

A cohabitant. Hobbes.

One who dwells with another, or with others. "Coinhabitants of the same element." Dr. H. More.

To dislodge. [Obs.] Those sleeping stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime Had been dishabited. Shak.

Rendered uninhabited. "Dishabited towns." R. Carew.

To render unaccustomed.

Uninhabited. [Obs.]

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.

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

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.

des 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.]

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

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

Uninhabited. [Obs.] Brathwait.

An inhabitant. [R.] Derham.

See Inhabitativeness. What the phrenologists call inhabitiveness. Lowell.

A female inhabitant. [R.]

Connecticut; -- a nickname alluding to the moral character of its inhabitants, implied by the rigid laws (see Blue laws) of the early period.

One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.