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Habituate

//həˈbɪtju.eɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.

    "1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises, Paris, “The First Treatise declaring the nature and operations of bodies,” Chapter 36, p. 311, […] it was the custome of our English doggs (who were habituated vnto a colder clyme) to runne into the sea in the heate of summer […]"

  2. 2
    make psychologically or physically used (to something) wordnet
  3. 3
    To settle as an inhabitant. obsolete

    "After the Conquests made by Caesar upon Gaul, and the nearer Parts of Germany […] great Numbers of Germans and Gauls resorted to the Roman Armies and to the City it self, and habituated themselves there, as many Spaniards, Syrians, Graecians had done before upon the Conquest of those Countries."

  4. 4
    take or consume (regularly or habitually) wordnet

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English habituat(e) (“physically established or present”), borrowed from Late Latin habituātus, perfect passive participle of habituō (“to bring into a condition or habit of body”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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