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r country. The Philistines were worsted by the captived ark . . . : they were not able to cohabit with that holy thing. South.

h another, or in the same place or country. No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England. Sir W. Raleigh.

The 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.

To cohabit with. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

To cohabit. [Obs.] We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. Milton.

To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with. I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. Shak.

The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine.

A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.

, And renownShak. Consummation of marrige, completion of the connubial relation by actual cohabition.

said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.

To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage. [Obs.]

The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law. Shak. Spiritual incest. (Eccl. Law) (a) The crime of cohabitation committed between persons who have a spiritual alliance by means of baptism or confirmation. (b) The act of a vicar, or other b…

m home as a servant. [U. S.] -- To live with. (a) To dwell or to be a lodger with. (b) To cohabit with; to have intercourse with, as male with female.