Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: IN-HA-BIL'I-TY – IN-HER'ENT-LY
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IN-HA-BIL'I-TY, n. [from inhabile.]
Unaptness; unfitness; want of skill. [Little used. See Inability.]
IN-HAB'IT, v.i.
To dwell; to live; to abide. They say wild beasts inhabit here. – Waller.
IN-HAB'IT, v.t. [L. inhabito; in and habito, to dwell.]
To live or dwell in; to occupy as a place of settled residence. Wild beasts inhabit the forest; fishes inhabit the ocean, lakes and rivers; men inhabit cities and houses. Thus saith the high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. – Is. lvii.
IN-HAB'IT-A-BLE, a. [from inhabit.]
- Habitable; that may be inhabited; capable of affording habitation to animals. The stars may be inhabitable worlds. Some regions of the earth are not inhabitable, by reason of cold or sterility. A building may be too old and decayed to be inhabitable.
- Not habitable. [Fr. inhabitable; L. inhabitabilis.] [Not in use.] – Shak.
IN-HAB'IT-ANCE, n.
Residence of dwellers. [Little used.] Carew.
IN-HAB'IT-AN-CY, n.
Residence; habitancy; permanent or legal residence in a town, city or parish; or the domiciliation which the law requires to entitle a pauper to demand support from the town, city or parish in which he lives, otherwise called a legal settlement, which subjects a town to support a person, if a pauper. – Laws of Mass. Blackstone.
IN-HAB'IT-ANT, n.
- A dweller; one who dwells or resides permanently in a place, or who has a fixed residence, as distinguished from an occasional lodger or visitor; as the inhabitant of a house or cottage; the inhabitants of a town, city, county or state. So brute animals are inhabitants of the regions to which their natures are adapted; and we speak of spiritual beings, as inhabitants of heaven.
- One who has a legal settlement in a town, city or parish. The conditions or qualifications which constitute a person an inhabitant of a town or parish, so as to subject the town or parish to support him, if a pauper, are defined by the statutes of different governments or states.
IN-HAB-IT-A'TION, n.
- The act of inhabiting, or state of being inhabited. Ralegh.
- Abode; place of dwelling. Milton.
- Population; whole mass of inhabitants. Brown. [This word is little used.]
IN-HAB'IT-ED, pp.
Occupied by inhabitants, human or irrational.
IN-HAB'IT-ER, n.
One who inhabits; a dweller; an inhabitant. Derham.
IN-HAB'IT-ING, ppr.
Dwelling in; occupying as a settled or permanent inhabitant; residing in.
IN-HAB'IT-RESS, n.
A female inhabitant. Bp. Richardson.
IN-HALE', v.t. [L. inhalo; in and halo, to breathe.]
To draw into the lungs; to inspire; as, to inhale air; opposed to exhale and expire. Martin was walking forth to inhale the fresh breeze of the evening. Arbuthnot and Pope.
IN-HAL'ED, pp.
Drawn into the lungs.
IN-HAL'ER, n.
- One who inhales.
- In medicine, a machine for breathing or drawing warm steam into the lungs, as a remedy for coughs and catarrhal complaints. – Encyc.
IN-HAL'ING, ppr.
Drawing into the lungs; breathing.
IN-HAR-MON'IC, or IN-HAR-MON'IC-AL, a.
Unharmonious; discordant.
IN-HAR-MO'NI-OUS, a. [in and harmonious.]
Not harmonious; unmusical; discordant. – Broome.
IN-HAR-MO'NI-OUS-LY, adv.
Without harmony; discordantly.
IN-HAR'MO-NY, n.
Want of harmony; discord.
IN-HELD', pp.
Contained in itself.
IN-HERE', v.i. [L. inhæreo; in and hæreo, to hang.]
To exist or be fixed in something else; as, colors inhere in cloth; a dart inheres in the flesh.
IN-HER'ENCE, n.
Existence in something; a fixed state of being in another body or substance.
IN-HER'ENT, a.
- Existing in something else, so as to be inseparable from it. Inherent baseness. – Shak.
- Innate; naturally pertaining to; as, the inherent qualities of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty and protection.
IN-HER'ENT-LY, adv.
By inherence. – Bentley.