commorant
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editcommorant (not comparable)
- (law) Ordinarily residing; inhabiting.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- All freeholders within the precinct […] and all persons commorant therein.
- (US, law) Inhabiting or occupying temporarily.
Noun
editcommorant (plural commorants)
- A resident.
- 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata:
- a Commorant in Cambridge
References
edit- “commorant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.