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verb

Cohabit v. i. (past & past part. cohabited; pres. part. cohabiting)

To inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country. "The Philistines were worsted by the captived ark...: they were not able to cohabit with that holy thing."

To dwell or live together as husband and wife. "The law presumes that husband and wife cohabit together, even after a voluntary separation has taken place between them." Note: By the common law as existing in the United States, marriage is presumed when a man and woman cohabit permanently together, being reputed by those who know them to be husband and wife, and admitting the relationship.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cohabit" Quotes from Famous Books

... mores have imposed as regulations on the relations of a man and woman who are cooperatively carrying on the struggle for existence and the reproduction of the species. The regulations are always a conventionalization which sets the terms, modes, and conditions under which a pair may cohabit. It is, therefore, impossible to formulate a definition of marriage which will cover all forms of it throughout the history of civilization. In all lower civilization it is a tie of a woman to a man for the interests ...

— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner

... that certain territories or boundaries were appointed unto the angels, and Gen. 6:1-4, which speaks of the "sons of God" (which some suppose to refer to angels, which, however, is questionable), might seem to imply that the sin of the angels consisted in leaving their own abode and coming down to cohabit with the "daughters of men." Thus their sin would be that of lust. To some expositors the context in Jude would seem to warrant such a conclusion, inasmuch as reference is made to the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah. But this can hardly be true, for ...

— The Great Doctrines of the Bible • Rev. William Evans

... of his Majesty, which we were careful to utter at the outset of things. Madame is a person (as everybody in France now knows) who is in open revolt against her husband; she has deserted him in order to cohabit publicly with some one else. Her husband claims his coach, with his own crest and armorial bearings thereon, and we are here for the purpose of carrying out the order of one of the judges ...

— The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete • Madame La Marquise De Montespan

... time that the husband and wife cohabit together after the ceremony has been performed is called the consummation of marriage. Many grave errors have been committed by people in this, when one or both of the contracting parties were not physically or sexually in a condition to carry out the marriage ...

— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis

... was decidedly different. There was not so much need for the use of Negro women by Englishmen in the New World, but there was the same tendency to cohabit with them. In the end, however, the English, unlike the Latins, disowned their offspring by slave women, leaving these children to follow the condition of their mother. There was, therefore, not so much less miscegenation among the English ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 • Various

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