inhabitation

The legends of the discovery and inhabitation of Ireland before the Flood, are too purely mythical to demand serious notice.

As these two desiderata seem indispensable to lunar inhabitation, we may chiefly consider the question, Do these conditions exist?

Traces of Romano-British inhabitation have been noted elsewhere in Manchester, especially near the cathedral.

The Historie of Irelande from the first inhabitation thereof, vnto the yeare 1509.

The geological changes through which the earth has passed indicate "a process of preparation" for the inhabitation of man.