Middle English Dictionary Entry
inhabitāble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | inhabitāble adj. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Uninhabitable.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)191b/a : In Sicia ben many regiouns and londes..and some ben inhabitable, & no men wone þer ynne.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)78/19 : Beȝond Mauritayne, for to wende by see toward þe southe, es a grete cuntree, bot it es inhabitable [F mes homme ne purroit habiter] by cause of þe owtrage hete of þe sonne.
- a1450(c1433) Lydg.St.Edm.(Hrl 2278)420/350 : An yle..Lyk a desert, off ffolk inhabitable.
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)6906 : He fyndes þe place kyndly defensabill, Bot it was ȝit inhabytabill For thik wod and warayn.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)23 : A rich lond men sei it is, but mech thereof is inhabitable.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.135 : The superior Scythia is a grete region, moche inhabitable [L inhabitabilis] in the northe parte of hit for coldenesse.
- c1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)169/33 : I see noon othir weye actuell of the longe werrys of thys reaume sauf oonly land in destruccion, cuntre inhabitable [Fr. (Bouchet 29/21): pays inhabité], in multitude of wydowes and orphenys, caitifes, beggers and desolate.