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An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
* Sir Walter Scott
One who frequents a place.
* {{quote-news, author=(Russell Brand), title=Let’s kick cold profiteering out of football, along with racism, work=(The Guardian) (London), date=20 February 2015
, passage=As a fan of West Ham United I’m always looking to legitimise my dislike of Chelsea FC. And on first viewing, this week’s jarring retro-Métro-racism seems like a good reason to condemn the denizens of Stamford Bridge.}}
(British, obsolete) A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent.
* 1765 , (William Blackstone), (Commentaries on the Laws of England), Book 1, Chapter X, p. 374
(biology) An animal or plant from a particular range or habitat.
(British) To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.
* Dryden
To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
* J. D. Hooker
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun denizen
is an inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in.As a verb denizen
is (british) to grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.denizen
English
(wikipedia denizen)Noun
(en noun)- The giant squid is one of many denizens of the deep.
- The cries of the gorilla proclaimed that it was in mortal combat with some other denizen of the fierce wood. Suddenly these cries ceased, and the silence of death reigned throughout the jungle.
- Denizens of their own free, independent state.
- The denizens of that pub are of the roughest sort.
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- A denizen is a kind of middle state, between an alien and a natural-born subject, and partakes of both.''
- Though born in Iceland, he became a denizen of Britain after leaving Oxford.
- The bald eagle is a denizen of the northern part of the state.
Usage notes
As a British legal category, used between 13th and 19th century (mentioned but not used in 20th century), made obsolete by naturalisation – see (denization).Synonyms
* (inhabitant of a place) inhabitant, native, resident * (one who frequents a place) regularDerived terms
* denizationVerb
(en verb)- He was denizened to Ireland after fleeing his home country.
- As soon as denizened , they domineer.
- There were a few islets in the sand and these were at once denizened by various weeds.
false
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}