Meanings
dishabited1
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of dishabit
dishabited2
adjectivedishabited (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleteNo longer inhabited.
dishabited towns
1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC2 more examples
a land thereafter deſcribed, altogether diſhabited and unplanted , though poſſeſt with Indians
1648, Beauchamp Plantagenet, A Deſcription of the province of New Albion […]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
Origin
dishabited · verb
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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