Crossword clues for inhabitation
inhabitation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inhabitation \In*hab`i*ta"tion\, n. [L. inhabitatio a dwelling.]
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The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling.
The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost.
--Bp. Pearson. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. [Obs.]
--Milton.-
Population; inhabitants. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Browne.The beginning of nations and of the world's inhabitation.
--Sir W. Raleigh.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. 2 abode; place of dwelling; residence. 3 population; inhabitants.
WordNet
n. the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men); "he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony" [syn: inhabitancy, habitation]
Usage examples of "inhabitation".
During the first days of this journey among the Alps, the scenery exhibited a wonderful mixture of solitude and inhabitation, of cultivation and barrenness.
More seldom still did any dwelling betray evidence of inhabitation beyond faint wisps of smoke, like ghosts of famine, drifting from the chimneypots, or--perhaps--some unabashed exhibit of red flannel hung out to dry with wrist or ankle-bands nipped between a window-sash and sill.
The body, Margery told Deb, was gone from out of it, as soon would every trace of her inhabitation also be.
He has travelled that road which we must travel every one, he has reached the royal inhabitations of our dead, the home of everlasting shadows.
In the flush of energy and confidence humanity was working back in to areas previously considered uninhabitable, and now Venus was attracting a crowd of new terraformers, who were following up on the gesture made by Sax Russell with the relocation ofMars’s great mirrors, and had elaborated a grand vision for the eventual inhabitation of that planet, the sister to Earth in so many ways.
In the flush of energy and confidence humanity was working back in to areas previously considered uninhabitable, and now Venus was attracting a crowd of new terraformers, who were following up on the gesture made by Sax Russell with the relocation ofMars's great mirrors, and had elaborated a grand vision for the eventual inhabitation of that planet, the sister to Earth in so many ways.