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Inhabitans, -ance, -ence, n. pl. [e.m.E. inhabytans (1538), -itance (1588), OF. inhabitans, pl. of inhabitant.] Inhabitants. — 1549 Compl. 93/18.
Quhen forain princis hes … gottin dominatione on vthir cuntreis, than … thai haue … flatterit the principal inhabitans c 1560 Macgill Old Ross-shire 12.
The crofts and feild lands … ar haldin of … the haill inhabitans of the said toune 1596 Dalr. II. 391/27.
To the quene and al the inhabitans of the realme c1615 Chron. Kings ii.
Marketus … heffand spuilȝeit the West Yllis in the absense of the inhabitance of the same 1670 Melrose Reg. Rec. II. 259.
The possessores, inhabitence, and coaters off the toune and lands of Dannieltone
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