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addicted, ppl. a.|əˈdɪktɪd|
[f. addict v. + -ed.]
1. Delivered over by, or as if by, judicial sentence; devoted, destined, bound. Obs. exc. in Rom. Law.
1534More On the Passion Wks. 1557, 1280/1 The kinde of man, that was by synne addicted and adiudged to the diuel, as his perpetuall thrall. 1590Greene Arcadia (1616) 29 We be virgins, and addicted to virginitie. 1600Holland Livy viii. x. 288 k, The man who is..addicted and destined [devotus est] to death. 1679M. Prance Add. Narrative 12 He himself was addicted to a Trade.
†2. Attached by one's own act; given up, devoted, inclined (to a person or party); naturally attached (to a place). Obs.
1560J. Daus Sleidane's Comm. 12 b, Some princes are addicted to others for stipendes. 1579Lyly Euphues 105 The one was so addicted to the court, the other so wedded to the universitie. 1588in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 62 To destroy the queen, & all her people addicted to her. 1616Surflet & Markh. Countrey Farme 80 This bird is addicted to hot Countries. 1642Rogers Naaman 308 He was so addicted to Marius his Master. 1685K. James II. in London Gaz. mmxxxi/4 You are still..addicted to the Royal Interest. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. xxv. (1709) 246 Bishop Cheney, who was..most addicted to Luther.
3. a. Self-addicted (to a practice); given, devoted or inclined; attached, prone. Const. to, formerly also inf.; on, against; or adv. of manner, as peevishly addicted.
1561T. N[orton] Calvin's Inst. ii. iv. (1634) 139 His judgment and affection be so addicted unto evill. 1568Like Will to Like in Hazlitt Dodsley III. 328 He is wholly addicted to follow me. 1580T. Lupton Siquila 75 The people are so peevishly addicted that they esteeme Wealth above Wisdome. 1597Daniel Civile Wares v. liii, Whose holy minde so much addicted is on th' world to come. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. ii. v. 222 Being addicted to a melancholy as she is. 1612T. Taylor Titus i. 7 (1619) 140 To be addicted to the wine or strong drinke, taketh away the heart. 1618Latham New & 2nd Bk. Falconry (1633) 36 If you doe finde her to bee tutchie or nicely addicted. 1634T. Herbert Travaile 76 They were more addicted homewards. 1660T. Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 149/1 He was much addicted to civil Affairs. 1661Grand Debate 97 If the Magistrate would be advised by us (supposing himself addicted against you). 1703Maundrell Jrny. Jerus. (1732) 11 Much addicted to Merchandise. 1771Junius Lett. l. 259 His majesty is much addicted to useful reading. 1850A. Jameson Leg. Monast. Ord. (1863) 400 Being himself addicted to his Art. 1865Livingstone Zambesi xxi. 423 The blacks are more addicted to stealing where slavery exists.
b. Dependent on the continued taking of a drug as a result of taking it in the past; having a compulsion to take a drug, the stopping of which produces withdrawal symptoms.
1913Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 8 Feb. 431/2 The narcotic drugs do afford pleasurable sensations to many of those not yet fully addicted to their use. 1934Bull. Hygiene June 359/2 One patient became addicted in turn to morphine, dicodide and paracodine. 1958A. King Mine Enemy grows Older vi. 39 The ward physician..told me that it was easier to get off Dolophine than regular opiates... Everybody not addicted to drugs was convinced of it. 1962J. H. Burn Drugs, Med. & Man x. 110 Those who are addicted to cocaine often take it in the form of powder like snuff. 1985N.Y. Times 18 Feb. c18/4 Nearly all cocaine abusers are believed to be addicted to other substances.
†4. without const. Devoted, attached. (Formerly in common use in subscribing letters.) Obs.
1594Beard La Primaudaye's Fr. Acad. ii. Ep. Dedic., Subscr., Your Honors most addicted, T. B. 1597T. Morley Introd. Musicke Ded., Subscr., And so I rest, In all loue and affection to you, Most addicted, Thomas Morley. 1645Milton Tetrach. (1851) 139 With the same affections therfore, and the same addicted fidelity. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 22 The superstitious and addicted profession [i.e. of magic]. |