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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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adapt
English
Etymology
From Middle French adapter, from Latin adaptare (“to fit to”), from ad (“to”) + aptare (“to make fit”), from aptus (“fit”); see apt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??dæpt/
- Rhymes: -æpt
Verb
adapt (third-person singular simple present adapts, present participle adapting, simple past and past participle adapted)
- (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit
- Synonym: proportion
- (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust
- (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character
- (intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
adapt (comparative more adapt, superlative most adapt)
- Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
- c. 1709, Jonathan Swift, Merlin's Prophecy
- This prediction, though somewhat obscure, is wonderfully adapt.
- c. 1709, Jonathan Swift, Merlin's Prophecy
Translations
References
- adapt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- APDTA
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??dap(t)/
Verb
adapt (third-person singular present adapts, present participle adaptin, past adaptit, past participle adaptit)
- to adapt
References
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
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