habitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæbɪˌtjuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: habitudes
Etymology: From Middle English habitude, from Middle French habitude, from Latin habitūdō (“condition, plight, habit, appearance”), from habeō (“I have, hold, keep”).
Senses: examples: text: His real habitude gave life and grace / To appertainings and to ornament.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: The essential character of one's being or existence; native or normal constitution; mental or moral constitution; bodily condition; native temperament.
examples: text: [I]ts thought, that, in the Seed are alvvaies potentially ſeuerall indiuiduating Qualities deriu'd from diuers of the neere Anceſtors, vvhich by the formatiue povver of the Parents may be expreſt in the Children, vvith reſpectiue habitude to either Sex; […]
ref: 1614, John Selden, “The Preface”, in Titles of Honor, London: […] William Stansby for Iohn Helme, […], →OCLC, signature [b4], recto:
text: An habitude of commanding his passions in order to his health.
ref: 1683, John Dryden, Life of Plutarch (21)
text: [T]here was something of the habitude of the wild animal in the unreflecting instinct with which she rambled on — disconnecting herself by littles from her eventful past at every step, obliterating her identity […]
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: With the instinct of old habitude they fell to the oars, Barbara rowing the better and the stronger.
ref: 1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water:
glosses: Habitual disposition; normal or characteristic mode of behaviour, whether from habit or from nature
examples: text: And although Proportion ſtrictly ſignifies the Habitude or Relation of one Quantity to another, yet, in a looſer and tranſlated Senſe, it hath been applied to ſignify every other Habitude; and conſequently the Term Analogy comes to ſignify all Similitude or Relations, or Habitudes vvhatſoever.
ref: 1732, George Berkeley, “The Fourth Dialogue”, in Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, section XXI, page 256:
glosses: Behaviour or manner of existence in relation to something else; relation; respect.
examples: text: Although I believe not the report in full habitude.
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC, page 165:
glosses: In full habitude: fully, wholly, entirely; in all respects.
examples: text: The discourse of some with whom I have had some habitudes since my coming home.
ref: 1640–1706, John Evelyn, “(please specify the date of the diary entry)”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
glosses: habitual association; familiar relation; acquaintance; familiarity; intimacy; association; intercourse.
examples: text: La Corneus and Sallyes were the only habitudes we had.
ref: 1676, George Etherege, The Man of Mode (4.1)
glosses: an associate; an acquaintance; someone with whom one is familiar.
examples: text: Which […] by long habitude, are thought rather vertue than vice among them.
ref: 1599, James I of England, Basilikon Doron (28)
glosses: Habit; custom; usage.
examples: text: Most authors who have had occasion to describe naphthaline, have noticed its habitudes with sulphuric acid.
ref: 1818, Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics (32)
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The various ways in which one substance reacts with another; chemical reaction.
Derived terms: habitudinal