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1,179 words match “HABIT”

HABIT n. 7 definitions

l or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body.

HABITABILITY n.

HABITABLE a. 2 definitions

Capable of being inhabited; that may be inhabited or dwelt in; as, the habitable world. -- Hab"it*a*ble*ness, n. -- Hab"it*a*bly, adv.

Same as Habitant, 2. General met an emissary . . . sent . . . to ascertain the feelings of the habitans or French yeomanry. W. Irwing.

Dwelling; abode; residence. [Obs.] Spenser.

Same as Inhabitancy.

HABITANT n. 2 definitions

An inhabitant; a dweller. Milton. Pope.

HABITAT n. 2 definitions

Place where anything is commonly found. This word has its habitat in Oxfordshire. Earle.

HABITATION n. 2 definitions

The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy. Denham.

A dweller; an inhabitant. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

HABITED p. 3 definitions

Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd.

HABITUAL a. 2 definitions

Formed or acquired by habit or use. An habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims. South.

HABITUATE v. 3 definitions

To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. Our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime. Sir K. Digby. Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices. Tillotson.

The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.

HABITUDE n. 3 definitions

Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations. South. The same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to another. Locke. The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else than habitudes of thinking. Landor.

One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitué of a theater.

Habitude. [Obs.]

Habitude; mode of life; general appearance.

COHABIT v. 2 definitions

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. South.

another, or in the same place or country. No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England. Sir W. Raleigh.