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habituate
English
Etymology
From Middle English habituate (“physically established or present”, adjective), from Latin habitu?tus, past participle of habitu?re (“to bring into a condition or habit of body”).
Verb
habituate (third-person singular simple present habituates, present participle habituating, simple past and past participle habituated)
- 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,[1]
- […] 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 […]
- 1694, John Tillotson, Sermon 2, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, London: B. Aylmer, 1696, p. 35,[2]
- Men are usually first corrupted by bad counsel and company […] ; next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices […]
- 1799, Hannah More, Strictures of the Modern System of Female Education, London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, Volume 1, “On the Prevailing System of Education, Manners, and Habits of Women of Rank and Fortune,” p. 185,[3]
- It seems so very important to ground young persons in the belief that they will not inevitably meet in this world with reward and success according to their merit, but to habituate them to expect even the most virtuous attempts to be often, though not always disappointed, that I am in danger of tautology on this point.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 7,[4]
- My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.
- 1998, Nadine Gordimer, The House Gun, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 50,[5]
- […] quarrels in discotheques were settled by the final curse-word of guns. State violence under the old, past regime had habituated its victims to it. People had forgotten there was any other way.
- 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises, Paris, “The First Treatise declaring the nature and operations of bodies,” Chapter 36, p. 311,[1]
- (obsolete) To settle as an inhabitant.
- 1690, William Temple, “Of Poetry” in Miscellanea. The Second Part in Four Essays, London: Ri. and Ra. Simpson, p. 312,[6]
- 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.
- 1690, William Temple, “Of Poetry” in Miscellanea. The Second Part in Four Essays, London: Ri. and Ra. Simpson, p. 312,[6]
Synonyms
- accustom
- inure
Related terms
- habit
- habitual
- habituation
Translations
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acculture
English
Etymology
Either ac- +? culture or a back-formation from acculturation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??k?l.t???/
- Audio (US, Northern California)
Verb
acculture (third-person singular simple present accultures, present participle acculturing, simple past and past participle accultured)
- To familiarize oneself with, and adopt a new culture, especially by an immigrant
- I accultured myself very easily when I moved from Chile to Brazil; Portuguese, being similar to Spanish, was easy to learn. It might have been harder to acculture to life in Hong Kong.
Related terms
- acculturation
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: acculturent, accultures
Verb
acculture
- first-person singular present indicative of acculturer
- third-person singular present indicative of acculturer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of acculturer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of acculturer
- second-person singular imperative of acculturer
Latin
Participle
accult?re
- vocative masculine singular of accult?rus
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