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To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises, Paris, “The First Treatise declaring the nature and operations of bodies,” Chapter 36, p. 311, [...] it was the custome of our English doggs (who were habituated vnto a colder clyme) to runne into the sea in the heate of summer [...]
- 1694, John Tillotson, Sermon 2, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, London: B. Aylmer, 1696, p. 35, Men are usually first corrupted by bad counsel and company [...] ; next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices [...]
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: accustom, inure
Antonyms: none provided
To settle as an inhabitant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
make psychologically or physically used (to something)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She became habituated to the background music
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: accustom
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
Narrower terms: inure, harden, indurate, teach, addict, hook
take or consume (regularly or habitually)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: use
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: consume, ingest, take in, take, have
Narrower terms: drink, tope, board
Inherited from Middle English habituat(e) (“physically established or present”), borrowed from Late Latin habituātus, perfect passive participle of habituō (“to bring into a condition or habit of body”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Across languages
Translations
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
свиквам
(svikvam)
— to accustom; to familiarize
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Ingrian:
aatuttaa
— to accustom; to familiarize
