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Webster 1913 Edition
Addiction
Ad-dic′tion
,Noun.
[Cf. L.
addictio
an adjudging.] The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.
“His addiction was to courses vain.” Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Addiction
ADDIC'TION
,Noun.
1.
The act of devoting or giving up in practice; the state of being devoted.His addiction was to courses vain.
2.
Among the Romans, a making over goods to another by sale or legal sentence; also an assignment of debtors in service in their creditors.