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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.

sides 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.]

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

Uninhabited. [Obs.]

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

To inhabit again. Mede.

An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace. The Abderite, Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.

An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.

The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.

Of or pertaining to Æolia or Æolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; æolic; as, the Æolian dialect.

Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aërial regions or currents. "Aërial spirits." Milton. "Aërial voyages." Darwin.