commorant

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin commorans

Adjective

commorant (not comparable)

1. (law) Ordinarily residing; inhabiting.
   • (Can we date this quote by Blackstone and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• common rat