Habit
HAB'IT, noun [Latin habitus, from habeo, to have to hold. See Have.]
1. Garb; dress; clothes or garments in general.
The scenes are old, the habits are the same,
We wore last year.
There are among the statues, several of Venus,
in different habits.
2. A coat worn by ladies over other garments.
3. State of any thing; implying some continuance or permanence; temperament or particular state of a body, formed by nature or induced by extraneous circumstances; as a costive or lax habit of body; a sanguine habit
4. A disposition or condition of the mind or body acquired by custom or a frequent repetition of the same act. habit is that which is held or retained, the effect of custom or frequent repetition. Hence we speak of good habits and bad habits.
Frequent drinking of spirits leads to a habit of intemperance. We should endeavor to correct evil habits by a change of practice. A great point in the education of children, is to prevent the formation of bad habits.
Habit of plants, the general form or appearance, or the conformity of plants of the same kind in structure and growth.
HAB'IT, verb transitive To dress; to clothe; to array.
They habited themselves like rural deities.
HAB'IT, verb transitive To dwell; to inhabit.
HAB'ITABLE, adjective [Latin habitabilis, from habito, to dwell.]
That may be inhabited or dwelt in; capable of sustaining human beings; as the habitable world. Some climates are scarcely habitable
HAB'ITABLENESS, noun Capacity of being inhabited.
HAB'ITABLY, adverb In such a manner as to habitable.
HAB'ITANCE, noun Dwelling; abode; residence. [Not now used.]
HAB'ITANCY, noun Legal settlement or inhabitancy. [See Inhabitancy.]
HAB'ITANT, noun [Latin habitans.] An inhabitant; a dweller; a resident; one who has a permanent abode in a place.
HAB'ITAT, noun Habitation.
God is the habitation of his people, who find rest and safety in him (Psalms 71:3; 91:9). Justice and judgment are the habitation of God's throne (Psalms 89:14, Heb. mekhon, "foundation"), because all his acts are founded on justice and judgment. (See Psalms 132:5, 13; Ephesians 2:22, of Canaan, Jerusalem, and the temple as God's habitation.) God inhabits eternity (Isaiah 57:15), i.e., dwells not only among men, but in eternity, where time is unknown; and "the praises of Israel" (Psalms 22:3), i.e., he dwells among those praises and is continually surrounded by them.
HABITA'TION, noun [Latin habitatio, from habito, to dwell, from habeo, to hold, or as we say in English, to keep.
1. Act of inhabiting; state of dwelling.
2. Place of abode; a settled dwelling; a mansion; a house or other place in which man or any animal dwells.
The stars may be the habitations of numerous races of beings.
The Lord blesseth the habitation of the just. Proverbs 3:33.
HAB'ITATOR, noun [Latin] A dweller; an inhabitant. [Not used.]
HAB'ITED, adjective Clothed; dressed. He was habited like a shepherd.
1. Accustomed. [Not usual.]
HABIT'UAL, adjective 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.
HABIT'UALLY, adverb By habit; customarily; by frequent practice or use; as habitually profane; habitually kind and benevolent.
HABIT'UATE, verb transitive
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, adjective Inveterate by custom.
1. Formed by habit.
HABIT'UATED, participle passive Accustomed; made familiar by use.
HABIT'UATING, participle present tense Accustoming; making easy and familiar by practice.
HAB'ITUDE, noun [Latin 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.