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Habitually

Habitual \Ha*bit"ual\ (h[.a]*b[i^]t"[-u]*al; 135), a. [Cf. F. habituel, LL. habitualis. See Habit, n.]

  1. Formed or acquired by habit or use.

    An habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims.
    --South.

  2. According to habit; established by habit; customary; constant; as, the habitual practice of sin.

    It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to be grateful for the most common and ordinary blessings.
    --Buckminster.

    Syn: Customary; accustomed; usual; common; wonted; ordinary; regular; familiar. -- Ha*bit"u*al*ly, adv. -- Ha*bit"u*al*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
habitually

mid-15c., from habitual + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
habitually

adv. 1 By habit; in a habitual manner. 2 Occurring regularly or usually.

WordNet
habitually
  1. adv. according to routine or established practice; "he routinely parked in a no-parking zone" [syn: routinely]

  2. according to habit or custom; "her habitually severe expression"; "he habitually keeps his office door closed"

Usage examples of "habitually".

But Mary was shy of acceding to such invitations and at last frankly told her friend Patience, that she would not again break bread in Greshamsbury in any house in which she was not thought fit to meet the other guests who habitually resorted there.

Most Americans are paranoid by nature, and Los Angelites habitually border on the psychotic.

The earliest prosauropods were bipedal, but later forms appear to have walked either occasionally or habitually on all four legs.

Angelo ripped off a pair of gold and sapphire earrings which immediately replaced the brass pair he habitually wore, while Chubby picked an enormous necklace of garnets which he hung around his neck and preened like a teenage girl.

Towards the end of the last century Horse radish was known in England as Red cole, and in the previous century it was eaten habitually at table, sliced, with vinegar.

From the general look of the place, I concluded that its owner was a fellmonger, and habitually addieted to the use of strong waters.

Jay Kalam habitually taciturn, Hal Samdu, slow with words, Giles Habibula overly cautious.

Penelope habitually went there to think about him and wonder how the council concerning Ilion progressed.

IN his study, Trent Jarrock had found the duplicate lists in the drawer that Thornton mentioned and with them a small bottle of pills that Jarrock habitually used before meals.

Then, this sort of a conscience is not habitually certain, and laxity consists precisely in contemning doubts and passing over lurking, lingering suspicions as not worthy of notice.

Leaving her on the marble bench, with its carvings of pheasants and peafowl and flowers that had not blossomed here in ten summers, Ingold bundled the horrible kill into one of the hempen sacks he habitually carried, and hung the thing from the branch of a sycamore dying at the edge of the slunch, wreathed in such spells as would keep rats and carrion feeders at bay until they could collect it on their outward journey.

A small amount of putrescent matter habitually introduced into the system, as in the use of food, is productive of the most serious results, which can be traced to the direct action of the poison introduced.

I habitually banned all erotic thoughts of Seel from my mind, because I found them too painful to think about.

Hiraga nodded, drained the last cup then got up, stripped off the starched yukata that all Houses and Inns habitually supplied their clients, and dressed again in the most ordinary kimono of a villager, rough turban and coolie straw hat, then shouldered the empty delivery basket.

Thus the oil companies, which we habitually perceive as competing capitalist producers, might more accurately be viewed as keepers of the commons.