What does habitative mean?
Habitative means (linguistics) Indicating the types of structures, shelters, places of worship, or organization of homes in a community..
Habitative
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Meaning
(linguistics) Indicating the types of structures, shelters, places of worship, or organization of homes in a community..
Definitions by Sense
- (linguistics) Indicating the types of structures, shelters, places of worship, or organization of homes in a community.
- Pertaining to habitation.
Example Sentences
It is highly worthy of note that Berber indicates the habitative, in all the derived stems, by a vocalism, more consistently even than Akkadian (exceptions to this rule are only seemingly so).
Another habitative term occurs in Castlethorpe, which was probably originally a simplex name from Old English throp, thought to denote a settlement initially dependent on a more important place.
Taking this fact into account increases the density of known habitative names at Shapwick to 1 about every 185 acres.
The fiend himself, when started on his ill-intentioned cruise into chaos, could scarcely display a wider range of locomotive and habitative powers.
Thus, whatever idea, whatever purpose, whatever need, whatever fancy, predominates in him when he builds, it takes shape, it finds expression, it embodies itself, forthwith, in fitting material, fittingly contrived, and is, according to his habitative wish, his taste in a tabernacle, possibly a pig-sty, possibly a palace; for his range of invention stretches over every thing that lies between the two.
According to the principle of subsidiarity, government should be as habitative as possible. Government functions must therefore be exercised at the most habitative level, as close as possible to those affected by the exercise of such functions.
In this chapter we shall examine the countryside more in habitative and economic terms: what were the settlement patterns, social structures and economic formations of the countryside?
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Word Forms
- more habitative
- most habitative
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It is highly worthy of note that Berber indicates the habitative, in all the derived stems, by a vocalism, more consistently even than Akkadian (exceptions to this rule are only seemingly so).
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