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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

assuetudo

, fr.

assuetus

accustomed.]

Accustomedness; habit; habitual use.

Assuetude

of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt.

Bacon.

Noun.

[L. assuetudo, from assuetus,

of assuesco, to accustom.] Custom; habit; habitual use.

See also: assuétude

assuetude

Accustomedness; habit.
- Francis Bacon
  Assuetude of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt.
The condition of an organism that has acquired tolerance of a drug or poison.