habitative

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Indicating the types of structures, shelters, places of worship, or organization of homes…

   Indicating the types of structures, shelters, places of worship, or organization of homes in a community.

   • It is highly worthy of note that Berber indicates the habitative, in all the derived stems, by a vocalism, more consistently even than Akkadian (exceptions to this rule are only seemingly so).
   • Another habitative term occurs in Castlethorpe, which was probably originally a simplex name from Old English throp, thought to denote a settlement initially dependent on a more important place.
   • Taking this fact into account increases the density of known habitative names at Shapwick to 1 about every 185 acres.
2. 2

   Pertaining to habitation.

   • The fiend himself, when started on his ill-intentioned cruise into chaos, could scarcely display a wider range of locomotive and habitative powers.

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