commorant

English

Etymology

Latin commorans

Adjective

commorant (not comparable)

  1. (law) Ordinarily residing; inhabiting.
    • Blackstone
      All freeholders within the precinct […] and all persons commorant therein.
  2. (US, law) Inhabiting or occupying temporarily.

Noun

commorant (plural commorants)

  1. A resident.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hacket to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for commorant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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