Hypertext Webster Gateway: "habitude"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Habitude \Hab"i*tude\, n. [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 ?heir 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 ?umber of acts and perpetual practice.
--Dryden.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

habitude
n : habitual mode of behavior


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