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Habituated

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: cf. F. habituer. See Habit.]

  1. 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.

  2. To settle as an inhabitant. [Obs.]
    --Sir W. Temple.

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habituated

vb. (en-past of: habituate)

Usage examples of "habituated".

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.

And with the mind, even of humans, behaving in a habituated, instinctive fashion, many an insightful perception or suggestion is rejected out of hand by the deeply engrained, yet erroneous, patterns adhered to by the majority.

These are all parts of deeply habituated mind structures, pre-patterned and pre-programmed, parts of the formative field which underlie the bodies and the instinctive characteristics of all living creatures.

Thus we have suspicion, confusion and misunderstanding, for the mental meaning underlying words varies, as do our habituated beliefs.

In the meantime the ears of their congregations would be gradually habituated to it, as if it were a first principle admitted without dispute.

Its professors, therefore, must have the qualities of men not habituated to sentiments of dignity.

That which might be a tolerable condition to men in one state of life, and not habituated to other things, may, when all these circumstances are altered, be a dreadful revolution, and one to which a virtuous mind would feel pain in condemning any guilt except that which would demand the life of the offender.

The consequence will be that these purchasers, or rather grantees, will pay, not only from the rents as they accrue, which might as well be received by the state, but from the spoil of the materials of buildings, from waste in woods, and from whatever money, by hands habituated to the gripings of usury, they can wring from the miserable peasant.

In this new pavement of square within square, and this organization and semi-organization, made on the system of Empedocles and Buffon, and not upon any politic principle, it is impossible that innumerable local inconveniences, to which men are not habituated, must not arise.

After having stood a few minutes in the cavern, the atmosphere of which was rather warm than damp, Dantes’ eye, habituated as it was to darkness, could pierce even to the remotest angles of the cavern, which was of granite that sparkled like diamonds.

He now proceeded, with all diligence, to procure proper agents and coadjutors, habituated to the Indian trade and to the life of the wilderness.

By degrees he rose to the rank of a chief, espoused one of the beauties of the island, and became habituated and reconciled to his new way of life.