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habit /habˈit/ noun- Ordinary course of behaviour
- Tendency to perform certain actions
- Custom
- Accustomedness
- Familiarity
- Bodily constitution
- Characteristic mode of development
- The geometric form taken by a crystal (crystallography)
- Outward appearance
- Official or customary dress, esp the costume of a nun or monk
- A garment, esp a riding habit
- An addiction to a drug, etc
- A learned behavioural response to particular circumstances (psychology)
transitive verb- To dress
- To inhabit (archaic)
ORIGIN: L habitus state, dress, from habitāre to dwell habˈitaunce noun (Spenser) Dwelling-place habˈited adjective Clothed habitˈūal adjective - Customary
- Usual
- Confirmed by habit
noun- Someone who has a habit
- A habitual drunkard, drug-taker, frequenter, etc
habitˈūally adverb habitˈūalness noun habitˈūāte transitive verb - To accustom
- To settle (in), or to frequent (archaic)
habitūāˈtion noun - The act of accustoming
- The process of becoming accustomed
- Acquired tolerance for a drug, which thereby loses its effect
- Development of psychological, without physical, dependence on a drug
habˈitūde noun - Constitution
- Characteristic condition
- Habit
- Relation (obsolete)
- Familiar acquaintance (obsolete)
habitūˈdinal adjective habitué /hab-itˈū-ā or (French) a-bē-tü-ā/ noun A habitual frequenter habˈitus noun - Physical type, esp as predisposing to disease (medicine)
- Characteristic appearance, manner of growth, etc of a plant or animal
habˈit-cloth noun A light broadcloth habˈit-forming adjective (of a drug) such as a taker will find it difficult or impossible to give up using habˈit-maker noun A maker of riding habits be in the habit of or make a habit of To do regularly or usually habit and repute (Scots law) Public knowledge that affords strong and generally conclusive evidence of fact, esp of an informal marriage |