different between habituate vs season

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)

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,^[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.

2. (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.

Synonyms

• accustom
• inure

Related terms

• habit
• habitual
• habituation

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?si?z?n/
• (General American) enPR: s??z?n IPA^(key): /?siz?n/
• Rhymes: -i?z?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year”), from Old French seson, saison (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin sati? (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of ser? (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh?- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English s?wan (“to sow”), s?d (“seed”). Displaced native Middle English sele (“season”) (from Old English s?l (“season, time, occasion”)), Middle English tide (“season, time of year”) (from Old English t?d (“time, period, yeartide, season”)).

Noun

season (plural seasons)

1. Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter

   Synonyms: yeartide, yeartime

   • c. 1705, Joseph Addison, Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703

     we saw, in six days' traveling, the several seasons of the year in their beauty and perfection
2. A part of a year when something particular happens.
3. A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
4. (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
5. (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 1

     O! she is fallen

     Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea

     Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,

     And salt too little which may season give

     To her foul-tainted flesh.

   • 1605, Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth, III, 4

     You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

6. (Canada, US, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.

   Synonym: series (British English)

7. (archaic) An extended, undefined period of time.
   • 1656, John Owen, The Mortification of Sin

     So it is in a person when a breach hath been made upon his conscience, quiet, perhaps credit, by his lust, in some eruption of actual sin; — carefulness, indignation, desire, fear, revenge are all set on work about it and against it, and lust is quiet for a season, being run down before them; but when the hurry is over and the inquest is past, the thief appears again alive, and is as busy as ever at his work.

8. (video games) The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
9. (video games) A fixed period of time in a massively multiplayer online game in which new content (themes, rules, modes, etc.) becomes available, sometimes replacing earlier content.

Usage notes

In British English, a year-long group of episodes of a television or radio show is called a series, whereas in North American English the word series is a synonym of program or show.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (sh?zun)

Translations

See also

Verb

season (third-person singular simple present seasons, present participle seasoning, simple past and past participle seasoned)

1. (transitive) To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.

2. (transitive, by extension) To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.

3. (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
4. (intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.

5. (transitive) To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
6. (obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate.

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Synonyms

• (make fit for any use by time or habit): wont; see also Thesaurus:accustom
• (prepare by drying): desiccate, dehydrate, exiccate, fordry
• (become mature): age, grow up, mature; see also Thesaurus:to age
• (become dry and hard): desiccate, dry out, dry up, fordry, shrivel up
• (mingle): admix, alloy, intermingle; see also Thesaurus:mix
• (copulate with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Translations

Etymology 2

From French assaisonner.

Verb

season (third-person singular simple present seasons, present participle seasoning, simple past and past participle seasoned)

1. (transitive) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.

Related terms

• seasoning

Translations

Anagrams

• Easons, naoses, ossean

Middle English

Noun

season

1. Alternative form of sesoun