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Confirmation or approbation, as of an act or contract. [Obs.] Jer. Tailor.

One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors.

To inhabit again. Mede.

t commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace. The Abderite, Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.

Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation. Come, let me lead you to our poor abode. Wordsworth.

An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.

The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.

To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. J. H. Newman.

The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.

To cohabit with. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; - - with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.

Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer.

Custom; habitual use. [Obs.] Boyle.

Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.

tions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits. No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step. Barrow. Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law. Blackstone.…

desire no greater than our necessity. Jer. Taylor. Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do. Barrow. Uplifted hands that at convenient times Could act extortion and the worst of crimes. Cowper.

An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor. The Lord is a Good of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. 1 Sam. ii. 3.

To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to. "They addict themselves to the civil law." Evelyn. He is addicted to his study. Beau. & Fl. That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations. Adventurer. His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity. Fuller. A man gross . . . and addicted to low…