Crossword clues for habitude
habitude
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Habitude \Hab"i*tude\ (h[a^]b"[i^]*t[=u]d), n. [F., fr. L. habitudo condition. See Habit.]
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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 their habitudes of thinking.
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Habitual association, intercourse, or familiarity.
To write well, one must have frequent habitudes with the best company.
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Habit of body or of action.
--Shak.It is impossible to gain an exact habitude without an infinite number of acts and perpetual practice.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"custom, habit," c.1400, from Old French habitude (14c.), from Latin habitudinem (nominative habitudo) "condition, appearance, habit," from past participle stem of habere "have, hold; manage, keep" (see habit (n.)). Related: Habitudinal (late 14c.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) The essential character of one's being or existence; native or normal constitution; mental or moral constitution; bodily condition; native temperament. 2 (context archaic English) Habitual disposition; normal or characteristic mode of behaviour, whether from habit or from nature 3 (context obsolete English) behaviour or manner of existence in relation to something else; relation; respect. 4 (context obsolete English) ''In full habitude'': fully, wholly, entirely; in all respects. 5 (context obsolete English) habitual association; familiar relation; acquaintance; familiarity; intimacy; association; intercourse. 6 (context obsolete English) an associate; an acquaintance; someone with whom one is familiar. 7 habit; custom; usage. 8 (context obsolete English) A chemical term used in the plural to denote the various ways in which one substance reacts with another; chemical reaction.
WordNet
n. habitual mode of behavior
Usage examples of "habitude".
He gives us, for example, rememorating, producement, curvate, habitude, rummers, familistic, gloam, dit, shippon and scrab.
Voila pourquoi je suis heureux de vous voir renoncer des maintenant a vos anciennes habitudes pour en prendre de nouvelles qui, seules, peuvent, dans un avenir, je ne dis pas immediat, mais prochain au moins, vous donner la vie qui convient a un duc de Naurouse, et que personne ne vous souhaite plus sincerement que moi, croyez-le.
Renaissance en sa fleur ne rompit point avec cette jolie habitude de varier les motifs.
The noblest institutions in this part of Spain, the best inventions for comfortable and agreeable living, and all those habitudes and customs which throw a peculiar and Oriental charm over the Andalusian mode of living may be traced to the Moors.
But now we are speaking of sacraments in a special sense, as implying the habitude of sign: and in this way a sacrament is a kind of sign.
The electors and elected throughout, especially in the rural cantons, will be frequently without any civil habitudes or connections, or any of that natural discipline which is the soul of a true republic.