The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tenant \Ten"ant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tenanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tenanting.] To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
Sir Roger's estate is tenanted by persons who have
served him or his ancestors.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of tenant English)
Usage examples of "tenanting".
Here, despite the fees, a hardworking family could prosper, as his had, with one brother tenanting his own cottage, and Arin soon to marry.
That there is no creature now tenanting Bedlam who would or could scribble purer nonsense about God than this of Newton’s, we are well convinced—for how could the most frenzied of brains imagine anything more repugnant to every principle of good sense than a self-existent, eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent Being, creator of all the worlds, who acts the part of ‘universal emperor,’ and plays upon an infinitely larger scale, the same sort of game as Nicholas of Russia, or Mohammed of Egypt, plays upon a small scale.