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habituate
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from Latin habituatus , past participle of habituare "to bring into a condition or habit of the body," from habitus "condition, appearance, dress" (see habit (n.)). Related: Habituated ; habituating .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Habituate \Ha*bit"u*ate\ (h[.a]*b[i^]t"[-u]*[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Habituated (h[.a]*b[i^]t"[-u]*[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Habituating (h[.a]*b[i^]t"[-u]*[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [L. habituatus, p. p. of habituare to bring into a condition or habit of body: ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. 2 To settle as an inhabitant.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. take or consume (regularly or habitually); "She uses drugs rarely" [syn: use ] make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music" [syn: accustom ]
Usage examples of habituate.
It was also probably the sword-swallower who showed the physicians to what extent the pharynx could be habituated to contact, and from this resulted the invention of the tube of Faucher, the esophageal sound, ravage of the stomach, and illumination of this organ by electric light.
The Shell blowback at Surire should have habituated him to the mind-set of the kind of people he was dealing with.
For what would have been the consequence if that rabble of shepherds and strangers, fugitives from their own countries, having, under the protection of an inviolable asylum, found liberty, or at least impunity, uncontrolled by the dread of regal authority, had begun to be distracted by tribunician storms, and to engage in contests with the fathers in a strange city, before the pledges of wives and children, and love of the very soil, to which it requires a length of time to become habituated, had united their affections.
With such a sport, in which life or death depended upon an instant, in which a slip of the foot, a misjudgment of distance, or a wavering of hand or eye meant horrible destruction, we may be sure that the tragedies of the Minoan bull-ring were many and terrible, and that the fair dames of the Knossian Palace, modern in costume and appearance as they seem to us, were as habituated to scenes of cruel bloodshed as any Roman lady who watched the sports of the Colosseum, and saw gladiators hack one another to pieces for her pleasure.
The habituated response can be dishabituated or sensitized by strong stimuli to another part of the animal, say the tail, in which case the response reappears in all its original strength.
He first translates the complex gill and siphon withdrawal behaviour of the intact organism into a circuit which habituates as a result of interactions between just two cells.
His life is mostly devoted to carrying bulky panniers and packages which rest against his body--therefore he is habituated to taking the outside edge of mountain paths, to keep his bundles from rubbing against rocks or banks on the other.
But they are habituated to trim themselves by the cloudy mirror of opinion, and will mince and temporise, as if for an invisible audience, even in their bedrooms.
Habituated to frequent theaters from their earliest age, they became perfect mistresses of the art of insinuation and the powers of persuasion.
On both sides of the traditional louvered doors the inner, full-length doors were propped open with a pair of giant laser drillbits, souvenirs of the deep-bore mining of Rafa III, whose vacationing practitioners habituated the place.
Habituated to the baths and theatres of Rome, they took the field with reluctance, and were chiefly composed of veterans who had almost forgotten, or of new levies who had never acquired, the use of arms and the practice of war.
The recent experience of genuine miracles should have instructed the Christian world in the ways of Providence, and habituated their eye (if we may use a very inadequate expression) to the style of the divine artist.
Mai, describes Valentinian as born among the snows of Illyria, and habituated to military labor amid the heat and dust of Libya: genitus in frigoribus, educatus is solibus Sym.
From a life of idleness and want, his troops were soon habituated to severe exercise and plentiful subsistence.
It is very clear that our freedom to act and think is hemmed in on all sides by physical circumstances and by the habituated, psychological and subconscious content of our mind and emotions.