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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

dishabited en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of dishabit
    form of dishabit

dishabited en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From dis- + habited.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete) No longer inhabited.
    • dishabited towns 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
    • If thou couldst empty all thyself of self, Like to a shell dishabited, Then might He find thee on the Ocean shelf 1875, T. E. Brown, Indwelling:
    • a land thereafter deſcribed, altogether diſhabited and unplanted , though poſſeſt with Indians 1648, Beauchamp Plantagenet, A Deſcription of the province of New Albion […] :