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Definition of Habitude
1. Noun. Habitual mode of behavior.
Definition of Habitude
1. n. Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations.
Definition of Habitude
1. Noun. (archaic) The essential character of one's being or existence; native or normal constitution; mental or moral constitution; bodily condition; native temperament. ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) Habitual disposition; normal or characteristic mode of behaviour, whether from habit or from nature ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) Behaviour or manner of existence in relation to something else; relation; respect. ¹
4. Noun. (obsolete) ''In full habitude'': fully, wholly, entirely; in all respects. ¹
5. Noun. (obsolete) habitual association; familiar relation; acquaintance; familiarity; intimacy; association; intercourse. ¹
6. Noun. (obsolete) an associate; an acquaintance; someone with whom one is familiar. ¹
7. Noun. Habit; custom; usage. ¹
8. Noun. (obsolete) A chemical term used in the plural to denote the various ways in which one substance reacts with another; chemical reaction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Habitude
1. a usual course of action [n -S]
Medical Definition of Habitude
1. 1. Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations. "The same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to another." (Locke) "The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else than heir habitudes of thinking." (Landor) 2. Habitual association, intercourse, or familiarity. "To write well, one must have frequent habitudes with the best company." (Dryden) 3. Habit of body or of action. "It is impossible to gain an exact habitude without an infinite umber of acts and perpetual practice." (Dryden) Origin: F, fr. L. Habitudo condition. See Habit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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Literary usage of Habitude
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Habit and Its Importance in Education: An Essay in Pedagogical Psychology by Paul Radestock (1886)
"That bond which the practice of our central organs knits between various stations
of feeling, conception, and motion, we call habitude. ..."
2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1905)
"Influence de l'habitude sur la faculté de penser. Paris, 1802; id., 'Œuvres,'
fl>., 1841, vol. i. Marshall, К. В. Instinct and reason. NY and Lond., 1898, ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"In all the habitude! of life The friend, the mistress, and the wife. ...
Your knowledge of greatness and habitude in courts. Drydan, Marriage a-la-Mode, ..."
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