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Webster 1828 Edition


Addicted

ADDICT'ED

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Devoted by customary practice.

Definition 2024


addicted

addicted

English

Adjective

addicted (comparative more addicted, superlative most addicted)

  1. (dated, with to) Devoted (to something).
    • 1834 , William Swainson, A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural History, p. 26:
      [] he was from his childhood addicted to study, and ever since he came to the use of reason so great a husband of his time, as not to let slip unoccupied the least fragment of it.

Verb

addicted

  1. simple past tense and past participle of addict