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habituates

habituates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about habituates

What is habituates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Habituates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of habituate.

Words near habituates in the dictionary

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

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