commorant

English

Etymology

Latin commorans

Adjective

commorant (not comparable)

1. (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.

2. (US, law) Inhabiting or occupying temporarily.

Noun

commorant (plural commorants)

1. A resident.
   • 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata:

     a Commorant in Cambridge

References

• “commorant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• common rat