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habituated

habituated is the simple past and past participle of habituate.

Meaning of habituate

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.
    • […] 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 […]1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises, Paris, “The First Treatise declaring the nature and operations of bodies,” Chapter 36, p. 311
    Synonyms:
    accustom, inure
  2. (obsolete) To settle as an inhabitant.
    • 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.a. 1700 (date written), William Temple, Miscellanea. (please specify |part=1 to 3), London

Words formed from habituated

Questions about habituated

What is habituated the simple past and past participle of?
Habituated is the simple past and past participle of habituate.

Words near habituated in the dictionary

  1. habituall
  2. habitually
  3. habitualness
  4. habituals
  5. habituate
  6. habituated
  7. habituates
  8. habituateth
  9. habituating
  10. habituation
  11. habituations

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