commorant

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adjective

Ordinarily residing; inhabiting.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivecommorant (not comparable)
  1. not comparablelawOrdinarily residing; inhabiting.

    All freeholders within the precinct […] and all persons commorant therein.

    1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
  2. USnot comparablelawInhabiting or occupying temporarily.
nouncommorant (plural commorants)

plural commorants

  1. A resident.

    a Commorant in Cambridge

    1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata

Origin

  1. Latincommorans
  2. Englishcommorant

From Latin commorans.

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Chicago

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