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Dwell
DWELL, v.i. pret. dwelled, usually contracted into dwelt. [See Dally.]
1. To abide as a permanent resident, or to inhabit for a time; to live in a place; to have a habitation for some time or permanence.
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem. Gen 9.
Dwell imports a residence of some continuance. We use abide for the resting of a night or an hour; but we never say, he dwelt in a place a day or a night. Dwell may signify a residence for life or for a much shorter period, but not for a day. In scripture, it denotes a residence of seven days during the feast of tabernacles.
Ye shall dwell in booths seven days. Lev 23.
The word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. John 1.
2. To be in any state or condition; to continue.
To dwell in doubtful joy.
3. To continue; to be fixed in attention; to hang upon with fondness.
The attentive queen dwelt on his accents.
They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks and language, fixed in amazement.
4. To continue long; as, to dwell on a subject, in speaking, debate or writing; to dwell on a note in music.
Dwell, as a verb transitive, is not used. We who dwell this wild, in Milton, is not a legitimate phrase.
dwell appears in definitions for these words:
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Abide Abider Abiding Abode Antecian Arabesque Arson Bellows Bide Biding Bodily Borderer Brood Brooding Burden Bye Castle-ward Cave Celestial Chamber Chimney-corner Citizen Clay Climate Cohabit Cohabitant Cohabitation Come Commorance Commorant Complacence Confidence Consent Cornless Cottage Countryman Croft Cultivate Curtain Den Dimiciliary Diocese Dispossess Dwell Dwelling Ease Eastern Empale Enharbor Father Fig-tree Fill Fire Get Gibe Good Greatness Habit Habitable Habitance Habitant Habitation Habitator Hall Harp Harping Have Heavnely Hermitage Heteroscian Home Hord House Household Housekeeping How Hut Immanency Incendiary Indwelling Inhabit Inhabitance Inhabitant Inhabitation Inhabiter Inhabiting Injury Inmate Inn Insist Insisture Insular Keep Kennel Languish Live Living Lodge Lust Mansion Measure Meditate Messuage Morancy Morose Mountain Outdwell Own Parish Perfect Pleasant Pore Possess Quarter Redeem Resiant Reside Residence Resident Residing Robbery Run Rusticate Sap Scant Seat Secret Securely Sojourn Sojourner Sojourning Solitarily Solitude Stable Stall Stay Stick Studded Study Tabernacle Take Temple Tenant Thorp Threshhold Tithing Unity Uplandish Vagabond W Wone Worth
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