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Word Meanings - COMMORANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ordinarily residing; inhabiting. All freeholders within the precinct . . . and all persons commorant therein. Blackstone.

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  • INHABITATE
    To inhabit.
  • INHABITATIVENESS
    A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
  • INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
    The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of
  • RESIDE
    1. To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to abide continuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain for a long time. At the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. Shak. In no fixed place
  • RESIDENTIAL
    1. Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade. 2. Residing; residentiary.
  • INHABITATION
    1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson. 2. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. Milton. 3. Population; inhabitants. Sir T. Browne. The beginning of nations and
  • RESIDENTIARYSHIP
    The office or condition of a residentiary.
  • INHABITED
    Uninhabited. Brathwait.
  • RESIDUUM
    That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue. "I think so," is the whole residuum . . . after evaporating the prodigious pretensions of the
  • RESIDUE
    That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies. (more info) that is left behind, remaining, fr. residere to
  • INHABITANT
    One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident. (more info) 1. One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city,
  • PRECINCT
    praecinctum, to gird about, to encompass; prae before + cingere to 1. The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state. "The precincts
  • INHABIT
    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.
  • RESIDENCIA
    In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor.
  • RESIDENTSHIP
    The office or condition of a resident.
  • WITHINSIDE
    In the inner parts; inside. Graves.
  • RESIDENT
    1. Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country. 2. Fixed; stable; certain. "Stable and resident like a rock." Jer.
  • THEREINTO
    Into that or this, or into that place. Bacon. Let not them . . . enter thereinto. Luke xxi. 21.
  • INHABITRESS
    A female inhabitant.
  • INHABITABLE
    Capable of being inhabited; habitable. Systems of inhabitable planets. Locke.
  • COMMORANT
    Ordinarily residing; inhabiting. All freeholders within the precinct . . . and all persons commorant therein. Blackstone.
  • PRESIDENT
    Precedent. Bacon.
  • PRESIDIAL; PRESIDIARY
    Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison. There are three presidial castles in this city. Howell. (more info) praesidiarius, fr. praesidium a presiding over, defense, guard. See
  • NONINHABITANT
    One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.
  • WITHIN
    with, against, toward + innan in, inwardly, within, from in in. See 1. In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors. O, unhappy youth! Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives.
  • EXTRAORDINARILY
    In an extraordinary manner or degree.

 

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