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Webster 1913 Edition

Habitan

Haˊbiˊtan′

(ȧˊbē̍ˊtäN′)

,

Noun.

Same as

, 2.

General Arnold met an emissary . . . sent . . . to ascertain the feelings of the

habitans

or French yeomanry.

W. Irving.

Definition 2024

habitan

habitan

English

Noun

habitan ‎(plural habitans)

Obsolete form of habitant.
- Washington Irving
  General met an emissary […] sent […] to ascertain the feelings of the habitans or French yeomanry.
- 1862, The Bankers' magazine: Volume 22 (page 347)
  The paper offered by the Yankee speculator in exchange for colts, or cows, or grain, or butter, might please in New England or New York, but the habitan preferred silver dollars or gold doubloons, and would sell for nothing else.
- 1901, Henrietta Channing Dana Skinner, Heart and soul
  […] not an habitan from Hamtramck to l'Anse Creuse had closed an eye the livelong night for the baying of the Huntsman's Hound […]

Spanish

Verb

habitan

Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of habitar.
(used formally in Spain) Second-person plural present indicative form of habitar.