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Webster 1913 Edition

Habitude

Hab′i-tude

(hăb′ĭ-tūd)
,
Noun.
[F., fr. L.
habitudo
condition. See
Habit
.]
1.
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.
Landor.
2.
Habitual association, intercourse, or familiarity.
To write well, one must have frequent
habitudes
with the best company.
Dryden.
3.
Habit of body or of action.
Shak.
It is impossible to gain an exact
habitude
without an infinite number of acts and perpetual practice.
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition

Habitude

HAB'ITUDE

,
Noun.
[L. habitudo, from habitus.]
1.
Relation; respect; state with regard to something else. [Little used.]
2.
Frequent intercourse; familiarity. [Not usual.]
To write well, one must have frequent habitudes with the best company.
3.
Customary manner or mode of life; repetition of the same acts; as the habitudes of fowls or insects.
4.
Custom; habit.

Definition 2024

habitude

habitude

English

Noun

habitude ‎(countable and uncountable, plural habitudes)

  1. (archaic) The essential character of one's being or existence; native or normal constitution; mental or moral constitution; bodily condition; native temperament.
  2. (archaic) Habitual disposition; normal or characteristic mode of behaviour, whether from habit or from nature
    • 1683, John Dryden, Life of Plutarch (21)
      An habitude of commanding his passions in order to his health.
    • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
      […] there was something of the habitude of the wild animal in the unreflecting instinct with which she rambled on — disconnecting herself by littles from her eventful past at every step, obliterating her identity […]
  3. (obsolete) Behaviour or manner of existence in relation to something else; relation; respect.
  4. (obsolete) In full habitude: fully, wholly, entirely; in all respects.
    • 1661, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England (1.165)
      Although I believe not the report in full habitude.
  5. (obsolete) habitual association; familiar relation; acquaintance; familiarity; intimacy; association; intercourse.
    • 1665, John Evelyn, Memoirs (3.65)
      The discourse of some with whom I have had some habitudes since my coming home.
  6. (obsolete) an associate; an acquaintance; someone with whom one is familiar.
    • 1676, George Etherege, The Man of Mode (4.1)
      La Corneus and Sallyes were the only habitudes we had.
  7. Habit; custom; usage.
  8. (obsolete) A chemical term used in the plural to denote the various ways in which one substance reacts with another; chemical reaction.
    • 1818, Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics (32)
      Most authors who have had occasion to describe naphthaline, have noticed its habitudes with sulphuric acid.

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French

Pronunciation

Noun

habitude f ‎(plural habitudes)

  1. habit (action done on a regular basis)

Derived terms

Interlingua

Noun

habitude ‎(plural habitudes)

  1. habit (action done on a regular basis)

Middle French

Etymology

First known attestation 1365[1], borrowing from Latin habitūdō. The meaning 'habit' seems to have developed under the influence of habituer ‎(“to habituate” reflexively “to become habituated”).

Noun

habitude f (plural habitudes)

  1. relationship
  2. habit (action done on a regular basis)

References

  1. ↑ “habitude” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Middle English, from Middle French habitude, from Latin habitūdō ‎(“condition, plight, habit, appearance”), from habeō ‎(“I have, hold, keep”); see have.

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