Word Meanings - HABITANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dwelling; abode; residence. Spenser.

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• ABODE
  of Abide.
• DWELL
  AS. dwellan to deceive, hinder, delay, dwelian to err; akin to Icel. dvelja to delay, tarry, Sw. dväljas to dwell, Dan. dvæle to linger, 1. To delay; to linger. 2. To abide; to remain; to continue. I 'll rather dwell in my necessity. Shak. Thy
• ABODEMENT
  A foreboding; an omen. "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.
• RESIDENCE
  The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence. 4. The place where anything rests permanently. But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then, . . . fights
• DWELLING
  Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile. Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. Jer. xlix. 33. God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DWELLER
  An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller. "Dwellers at Jerusalem." Acts i. 19.
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• OUTDWELL
  To dwell or stay beyond. "He outdwells his hour." Shak.
• INDWELLER
  An inhabitant. Spenser.
• SPEEDWELL
  Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.
• WATER SPEEDWELL
  A kind of speedwell found in wet places in Europe and America.
• PRESIDENCE
  See PRESIDENCY
• LAKE-DWELLER
  See LAKE
• HOME-DWELLING
  Keeping at home.
• OUTDWELLER
  One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere.
• INDWELL
  To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession. The Holy Ghost became a dove, not as a symbol, but as a constantly indwelt form. Milman.
• UNDWELLABLE
  Uninhabitable. "A land undwellable." Wyclif.
• NONRESIDENCE
  The state or condition of being nonresident, Swift.