v. Obs. [see CO- 1.] intr. To dwell together.
1624. Capt. Smith, Virginia (1629), 140. Whom he found … contented his people should coinhabit amongst them.
So † Co-inhabiting ppl. a.; Co-inhabitant; † Co-inhabitor.
c. 1534. trans. Pol. Verg., II. 35. To deal against his co-inhabitauntes.
1643. Milton, Divorce (1851), Pref. 15. A familiar and co-inhabiting mischiefe.
1659. H. More, Immort. Soul, II. xvii. (1662), 136. Our being Co-inhabitants of the same element, the Earth.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymnarium, Poet. Wks. 1721, II. 99. Co-inhabitants of Heav’n.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 475. All mankind being as it were co-inhabitors or world-citizens togeither.
