commorant

English

Etymology

Latin commorans

Adjective

commorant (not comparable)

(law) Ordinarily residing; inhabiting.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522:
  
  All freeholders within the precinct […] and all persons commorant therein.
(US, law) Inhabiting or occupying temporarily.

Noun

commorant (plural commorants)

A resident.
- 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata
  a Commorant in Cambridge

References

commorant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

common rat

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