a. (UN-1 7 b. Cf. UNHABITABLE.)

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1448.  Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 401. The balyheis sal … tak doune the durris … of thaim [sc. houses], and mak thaim uninhabitable.

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1574.  Golding, Marlorat’s Apocalips, 299. The countrie of Sichimie … is desert and vninhabitable by reason of extreme cold.

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1610.  Shaks., Temp., II. i. 37. Though this Island seeme to be … Vninhabitable, and almost inaccessible.

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1662.  J. Davies, trans. Mandelslo’s Trav., 281. They would needs know of him … how he came to that uninhabitable place.

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1774.  Pennant, Tour Scotl. in 1772, 174. The far greater part of the country being uninhabitable by reason of the … mountains.

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1837.  Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sci., I. 155. It was supposed that the space between the tropical circles must be uninhabitable from heat.

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1884.  Law Times, 27 Sept., 359/2. The Manor House … being so dilapidated as to be almost uninhabitable.

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  Hence Uninhabitableness.

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1669.  Stillingfl., Serm., ix. (1673), 166. The opinion of the Ancients concerning the uninhabitableness of the torrid Zone.

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1676.  Doctrine of Devils, 194. The Uninhabitableness of the middle Zone.

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1839.  Fr. A. Kemble, Rec. Later Life, I. 255. Eight dwelling houses, all in different states and stages of uninhabitableness.

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