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Habituate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HABIT'UATE, v.t.
1. To accustom; to make familiar by frequent use or practice. Men may habituate themselves to the taste of oil or tobacco. They habituate themselves to vice. Let us habituate ourselves and our children to the exercise of charity.
2. To settle as an inhabitant in a place.
HABIT'UATE, a. Inveterate by custom.
1. Formed by habit.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: take or consume (regularly or habitually); "She uses drugs rarely" [syn: use, habituate]
2: make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music" [syn: habituate, accustom]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-ated; -ating) Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to make used to something ; accustom 2. frequent 1 intransitive verb 1. to cause habituation 2. to undergo habituation <habituate to a stimulus>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (often foll. by to) accustom; make used to something. Derivatives: habituation n. Etymology: LL habituare (as HABIT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Habituate Ha*bit"u*ate, a. Firmly established by custom; formed by habit; habitual. [R.] --Hammond.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Habituate Ha*bit"u*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Habituated; p. pr. & vb. n. Habituating.] [L. habituatus, p. p. of habituare to bring into a condition or habit of body: cf. F. habituer. See Habit.] 1. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. Our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime. --Sir K. Digby. Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices. --Tillotson. 2. To settle as an inhabitant. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Accustom, familiarize, inure, use, train, harden.

Moby Thesaurus

acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, adapt, addict, adjust, bear, break, break in, case harden, condition, confirm, domesticate, domesticize, endure, establish, familiarize, fix, gentle, harden, housebreak, inure, naturalize, orient, orientate, season, support, take to, tame, tolerate, train, use, wont