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Habitual definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HABIT'UAL, a. Formed or acquired by habit, frequent use or custom.
Art is properly an habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims.
1. Customary; according to habit; as the habitual practice of sin; the habitual exercise of holy affections.
It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to be grateful for the most common blessings.
2. Formed by repeated impressions; rendered permanent by continued causes; as an habitual color of the skin.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor" [syn: accustomed, customary, habitual, wonted]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1603 1. having the nature of a habit ; customary <habitual candor> <habitual behavior> 2. doing, practicing, or acting in some manner by force of habit <habitual drunkards> 3. resorted to on a regular basis <our habitual diet> 4. inherent in an individual <habitual grace> Synonyms: see usual • habitually adverb • habitualness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 done constantly or as a habit. 2 regular, usual. 3 given to a (specified) habit (a habitual smoker). Derivatives: habitually adv. habitualness n. Etymology: med.L habitualis (as HABIT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Habitual Ha*bit"ual (?; 135), a. [Cf. F. habituel, LL. habituals. See Habit, n.] 1. Formed or acquired by habit or use. An habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims. --South. 2. According to habit; established by habit; customary; constant; as, the habiual practice of sin. It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to be grateful for the most common and ordinary blessings. --Buckminster. Syn: Customary; accustomed; usual; common; wonted; ordinary; regular; familiar. -- Ha*bit"u*al*ly, adv. -- Ha*bit"u*al*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. A habitual action, state, or way of behaving is one that someone usually does or has, especially one that is considered to be typical or characteristic of them. If bad posture becomes habitual, you risk long-term effects. ADJ • habitually His mother had a patient who habitually flew into rages. ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj 2. You use habitual to describe someone who usually or often does a particular thing. ...the home secretary's plans for minimum sentences for habitual criminals. ADJ: ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Usual, customary, accustomed, wonted, common, regular, ordinary, familiar, every-day.

Moby Thesaurus

accepted, accustomed, addicted, arranged, automatic, average, beaten, businesslike, chronic, common, commonplace, confirmed, constant, continual, conventional, current, customary, established, everyday, familiar, fixed, formal, frequent, frequentative, habituated, hackneyed, hardened, harmonious, household, in hand, ingrained, instinctive, inveterate, involuntary, many, many times, methodical, natural, normal, normative, not rare, of common occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, ordered, orderly, ordinary, perpetual, persistent, popular, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, recurrent, recurring, regular, regulation, repetitive, ritual, rooted, routine, set, settled, standard, steady, stereotyped, stock, symmetrical, systematic, thick-coming, traditional, trite, uniform, universal, usual, vernacular, well-ordered, well-regulated, well-trodden, well-worn, wonted