habitn.

Brit.

/ˈhabɪt/, U.S.

/ˈhæbət/

Forms: α. Middle English abit, abyt, Middle English–1500s abite, abyte, (Middle English abbyte, 1500s abbit, abbet(te, abbytte, Scottish -eit). β. Middle English–1600s habite, Middle English–1500s habyte, (Middle English habet, 1500s habitt, habbet, habett(e, Scottish habeit, 1500s–1600s habette), Middle English– habit.

Etymology: < Old French habit, abit (12th cent. in Littré) = Provençal abit, habit, Italian abito; < Latin habitus, noun of action (u- stem), < habēre to have, (reflexive) to be constituted, to be.The sense development, as seen in Latin and the modern languages taken together, is thus: originally Holding, having, ‘havour’; hence the way in which one holds or has oneself, i.e. the mode or condition in which one is, exists, or exhibits oneself, a) externally; hence demeanour, outward appearance, fashion of body, mode of clothing oneself, dress, habitation; b) in mind, character, or life; hence, mental constitution, character, disposition, way of acting, comporting oneself, or dealing with things, habitual or customary way (of acting, etc.), personal custom, accustomedness. This development was largely completed in ancient Latin, and had received some extension in Old French, before the word became English; in English, senses were taken, from time to time, < French or Latin, without reference to their original order of development; hence the chronological order in English is in no way parallel to the original; and the arrangement below is only partly chronological. In modern French the word is narrowed down to branch I, other senses being supplied by habitude; thus English ‘habit’ is co-extensive with the two French words, and its chief sense corresponds not to French habit but to French habitude.

I. Fashion or mode of apparel, dress.

a. Bodily apparel or attire; clothing, raiment, dress. archaic.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun]

clothesc888

hattersOE

shroudc1000

weedOE

shrouda1122

clothc1175

hatteringa1200

atourc1220

back-clout?c1225

habit?c1225

clothingc1275

cleadinga1300

dubbinga1300

shroudinga1300

attirec1300

coverturec1300

suitc1325

apparel1330

buskingc1330

farec1330

harness1340

tire1340

backs1341

geara1350

apparelmentc1374

attiringa1375

vesturec1385

heelinga1387

vestmentc1386

arraya1400

graitha1400

livery1399

tirementa1400

warnementa1400

arrayment1400

parelc1400

werlec1400

raiment?a1425

robinga1450

rayc1450

implements1454

willokc1460

habiliment1470

emparelc1475

atourement1481

indumenta1513

reparel1521

wearing gear1542

revesture1548

claesc1550

case1559

attirement1566

furniture1566

investuring1566

apparelling1567

dud1567

hilback1573

wear1576

dress1586

enfolding1586

caparison1589

plight1590

address1592

ward-ware1598

garnish1600

investments1600

ditement1603

dressing1603

waith1603

thing1605

vestry1606

garb1608

outwall1608

accoutrementa1610

wearing apparel1617

coutrement1621

vestament1632

vestiment1637

equipage1645

cask1646

aguise1647

back-timbera1656

investiture1660

rigging1664

drapery1686

vest1694

plumage1707

bussingc1712

hull1718

paraphernalia1736

togs1779

body clothing1802

slough1808

toggery1812

traps1813

garniture1827

body-clothes1828

garmenture1832

costume1838

fig1839

outfit1840

vestiture1841

outer womana1845

outward man1846

vestiary1846

rag1855

drag1870

clo'1874

parapherna1876

clobber1879

threads1926

mocker1939

schmatte1959

vine1959

kit1989

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 11 Þe annesse Of an luue & of an wil þet heo alle habbeð imene wið innen. wið hare abit þet is an.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 141 Þe abyt þat þou hatz vpon, no halyday hit menskez.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 68/1 Saul thenne changed his habyte and clothyng and dyde on other clothyng.

1592 R. Johnson Nine Worthies sig. F3 The verie aspect of his outwarde abite.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 114 It is her habite onely, that is honest, Her selfe's a Bawd.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 24 Their habit like to Adams, a few Plantaine leaues only fixt about their middles.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1651 (1955) III. 40 He went about in Womens habits [or habite], & then in a Small-Coale-mans.

1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 336 In the vile habit of a village slave.

1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 111 The chief peculiarity in his habit was a deep lace ruff.

b. with a and plural. A set or suit of clothes, a dress (of some specified kind). archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun]

wearing?c1225

guisec1275

attire1382

habita1420

shapea1425

trick1542

fashion1544

trim1579

suit shape1598

garb1608

form1664

toilet1752

macaroni dressa1777

turn-out1812

style1814

set-out1834

get-up1842

rig1843

feather1854

model1859

make-up1883

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun]

habita1420

standc1450

suitc1475

sluch1582

standard1631

rig-out1824

outfit1840

suiting1863

shape1886

rig-up1896

bag of fruit1924

ensemble1927

whistle and flute1931

vine1932

drape1945

a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 414 Undir an olde poore habite reignethe ofte Grete vertu.

c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) lxvi. 305 Weddid..In a simple Abyt.

1521 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1882) I. 183 To have oon abbit after such fourme.

c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 197 The Collonell himselfe had on that day a habitt which was pretty rich but grave.

a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 170 Being thinly clothed with one of the digger's habits.

1761–2 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) III. 465 She dressed herself in a rich habit of silk and velvet.

1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 104/1 Women..were not to go out of town with more than three habits.

1808 Sketches of Char. (1813) I. 180 [They] went on horseback, in a uniform habit, all blue and silver.

c. plural. Clothes, garments, habiliments. archaic.

ΚΠ

1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 109 Lo here my habytes that be requysite.

1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 257 Your habites denie you to be of any place heereabouts.

1637 J. Milton Comus 6 Lest the place And my queint habits breed astonishment.

1735 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. V. 222 These had put on women's habits over their armour.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 271 [The bodies of] two princes in the habits they used to wear.

d. Hence in singular. A garment; a gown or robe. archaic.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > robe or gown

robec1225

gownc1400

habit1716

1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 4 Thy Doily Habit.

1728 T. Sheridan tr. Persius Satyrs (1739) v. 66 The Toga was the Habit worn in Peace.

1771 Mrs. J. Harris in Private Lett. Ld. Malmesbury (1870) I. 214 Mr. Cambridge borrowed a dress for her, which was pretty and fine, the habit muslin with green and gold sprigs, with a turban and veil.

1857 A. Jameson Legends Madonna (ed. 2) 19 St. Catherine of Siena, her habit spangled with stars.

e. transferred and figurative. Outward form or appearance; guise; ‘dress’, ‘garb’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [noun] > mere appearance

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frontc1374

appearancec1384

countenance?c1425

fard1540

show1547

habit1549

outside1578

glimpse1579

superficies?1589

species1598

out-term1602

paint1608

surface1613

superfice1615

umbrage1639

superficials1652

semblance1843

outer womana1845

outward man1846

patina1957

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Heb. i. f. ii Hauing vpon hym the habite of mans body.

1618 G. Wither Wither's Motto in Wks. (1633) 518 I will ever finde Meanes to maintaine a habit for my Minde Of Truth in graine.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. ii. §9 Though Plato thus..disfigured the habit of his Jewish Traditions.

1825 H. W. Longfellow Autumn in U.S. Lit. Gaz. 1 Oct. 29 The silver habit of the clouds.

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems II. 13 Tory to-day, and Whig to-morrow, All habits and all shapes he wore.

2. spec.

a. The dress or attire characteristic of a particular rank, degree, profession, or function; esp. the dress of a religious order; the habit, the monastic order or profession (cf. ‘the cowl’).

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > monastic garb > [noun]

weedOE

habitc1290

society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > monastic life or condition

monkhoodeOE

religiona1200

habitc1290

monkheada1400

religiosityc1443

monkery?1536

monachism?1570

monkship1620

cowl1653

monkism1659

monkishnessa1729

the cloister1781

monasticism1795

monkliness1887

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 20/45 Him-sulf he nam þe Abite þere: and Monek formest bi-cam.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 172 His abite he gan forsake, his ordre lete alle doune.

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. Prol. 3 In Habite of an Hermite [1393 C.: In Abit as an Ermite].

c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 353 In kinges abyt went hir sones tuo.

c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 67 Goo stele an abite, & bicome a frere.

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 85 Frerys whome you wold juge to be borne in the habyte they are so lytyl & yong.

1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell x. 131 So that a Biscayner is capable to be a Cavalier of any of the three habits.

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 17 The several Faculties..are distinguished by their Habits: Divinity-Students wear constantly Gowns and square Caps.

1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xliii. 471 Puritans, that is, such as refused the habits.

1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. v. 129 Magellan, whom the king honoured with the habit of St. Jago.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. ii. 110 The foreign reformers then in England..expressed their dissatisfaction at seeing these habits retained.

1894 J. T. Fowler in St. Adamnan Vita S. Columbae Introd. 77 While walking his hands were clasped under his habit.

b. In the Greek Church: lesser habit, the dress of the proficients or monastics of the second degree. great or great angelic habit, the dress of the monastics of the third degree, termed the perfects.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > monastic garb > monk's garb > [noun] > for monastic of third degree

great or great angelic habit1772

society > faith > artefacts > monastic garb > monk's garb > [noun] > for monastic of second degree

lesser habit1772

1772 J. G. King Rites Greek Church in Russia 366 [After completing their novitiate] they proceed to take the lesser habit or χήμα.

1772 J. G. King Rites Greek Church in Russia 366 They take..last of all, the great angelic habit.

3. = riding habit n.: A dress worn by ladies on horseback; a lady's riding-dress.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > for specific people > for women > for riding

riding habit1652

habita1817

amazone1825

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1666 (1955) III. 463 The Queene was now in her Cavaliers riding habite.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 104. ⁋3 The Model of this Amazonian Hunting-Habit for Ladies, was, as I take it, first imported from France.]

a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) II. vi. 92 Her habit therefore was thrown off with all possible haste.

1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. iv. 98 The elegant compromise betwixt male and female attire, which has now acquired, par excellence, the name of a habit.

1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xix. i, in Maud & Other Poems 63 Whether The habit, hat, and feather, Or the frock and gipsy bonnet Be the neater and completer.

1879 G. J. Whyte-Melville Riding Recoll. (ed. 7) vii. 121 The habit and the side-saddle.

1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. vii. 129 The St. Aubyn girls were breakfasting in their habits and hats.

II. External deportment, constitution, or appearance; habitation.

†4. Bearing, demeanour, deportment, behaviour; posture. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > demeanour or bearing

i-bereOE

i-letelOE

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countenancec1290

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maintenance?c1436

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maintain?1473

deport1474

maintaining1477

demeanance1486

affair1487

containing1487

behaviour1490

representation1490

haviour?1504

demeanour1509

miena1522

function1578

amenance1590

comportance1590

portance1590

purport1590

manage1593

style1596

dispose1601

deportments1603

comportment1605

garb1605

aira1616

deportment1638

comport1660

tour1702

sway1753

disport1761

maintien1814

tenue1828

portment1833

allure1841

1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. v. 60 Me semyth by semblaunt and by habyte that ye shold be Iustyce.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iii. i. 168 A stately man of habyte of chere and of maynten.

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. B Noble and milde this Persean seemes to be, If outward habit iudge the inward man.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 154 So of lying or other habit of body.

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 29 The habit and behaviour of this great Prince.

1687 C. Sedley Bellamira iii, in Wks. (1722) II. 136 What's the meaning of this Habit? I never saw a man so overjoy'd.

a. Bodily condition or constitution.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > [noun]

naturec1275

kindc1300

complexion1398

habitudec1400

disposition1477

constitution1553

corporature1555

habit1576

composition1578

temper1601

composure1628

schesis1684

stamina1701

habitus1886

1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. Epitome sig. Aij^v Of the habite of his body, or corporall proportion..hee is a faire and well fauoured Gentleman.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §354 Cardamon which..made them grow better, and be of a more active habit.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 3. ¶3 She would revive..out of a wasting Distemper, into a Habit of the highest Health and Vigour.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Habit, in Medicine, is what we otherwise call the Temperament, or Constitution of the Body, whether obtain'd by Birth, or Manner of Living.

1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity I. ii. 211 A being..of a delicate tender habit.

1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 48 To bring the moral patient to a better habit.

1812 T. Amyot Some Acct. Life W. Windham I. 4 A victim to a consumptive habit.

1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. i. i. 4 Originally..of a spare habit, but now a little inclined to corpulency.

†b. concrete. The bodily ‘system’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > system > [noun]

habit1584

system1692

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health i. 4 Least..anie of the excrements shoulde hastilie be receiued into the habit of the bodie.

1652 J. French York-shire Spaw x. 91 If it be retained in the habit of the body and veins.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) A Thing is said to enter the Habit, when it becomes intimately diffused throughout the Body; and is convey'd to the remotest Stages of Circulation.

1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. iii. 138 Water..would..dissolve these..Concretions..and help to carry them out of the Habit.

†c. The outer part, surface, or external appearance of the body.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > [noun] > with regard to appearance

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personc1390

personage1461

moul1565

mould1580

shape1602

flesha1616

habit1652

figure1717

1652 J. French York-shire Spaw xii. 98 The humours being drawn outwardly towards the habit of the body.

1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks ii. ii. 49 Some parts of Air, may continually pass into the Body and Blood, by the habit, or pores of the skin.

1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 316 The crass, dispirited Serum settles in the Legs, and every where outwardly upon the Habit.

6. Zoology and Botany. The characteristic mode of growth and general external appearance of an animal or plant. Hence transferred; e.g. in Crystallography the characteristic mode of formation of a crystal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > [noun] > general characteristics of

habit1691

life form1896

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > [noun] > habit

habit1691

port1721

the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > crystal habit > [noun]

crystal habit1887

habit1895

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 6 The same Insect under a different larva or Habit.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxxii. 492 You know them by their air, or habit, as Botanists usually call it.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 551 When..you know the name of one species, and find another of the same general habit.

1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. II. xxi. 99 Plants..of a tufted habit.

1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 34 Exotic species with the habit of Nasturtium.

1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. v. 90 Languages of other habit than ours.

1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. vi. §151 Such differences, then, may generally be held to indicate a mero-symmetrical habit.

†7. Habitation, abode. [So in Old French] Obsolete. rare.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun]

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place-being1567

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resiancy1580

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residing1587

inhabitance1588

abodement1592

commorance1594

habit1603

commoration1623

inwoning1647

inhabitancy1681

habitancy1792

domicile1835

occupying1849

abidal1850

tenancy1856

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxii. 47 Our greatest vices, make their first habite in vs, from our infancie.

III. Mental constitution, disposition, custom.

8. The way in which a person is mentally or morally constituted; the sum of the mental and moral qualities; mental constitution, disposition, character.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun]

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moodOE

i-mindOE

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the manner ofc1300

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where it's (he's, she's) at1967

c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 520 And shortly turned was al vp so down Bothe habit and eek disposicioun Of hym.

1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 11^v If we respect more the outward shape, then the inwarde habit.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. ii. xi. 45 The principall Habits are two in number, Vertue, and Vice.

1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 179 It Argues a well-ordered Frame and good Habit of Mind.

1721 E. Young Revenge i. i You..suit the gloomy habit of my soul.

1895 Bookman Oct. 27/1 The lecture plan and the lecturer's habit of mind are visible throughout.

a. A settled disposition or tendency to act in a certain way, esp. one acquired by frequent repetition of the same act until it becomes almost or quite involuntary; a settled practice, custom, usage; a customary way or manner of acting. (The most usual current sense. Chiefly said of living beings; in modern use occasionally of inanimate things.) [There is no etymological ground for the distinctive use of ‘habit’ for an acquired tendency; but in philosophical language, such a sense occurs already in Cicero, Inv. 1, 25, 36, ‘habitum appellamus..item corporis aliquam commoditatem, non natura datam, sed studio et industria partam’. The sense is late in French and English: Cotgrave has ‘Habit..also an habit; a fashion setled, a vse or custome gotten’.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > a habit or practice

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usagea1400

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habitude1603

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tread1817

dastur1888

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 4 b By long studie and great contemplation..got an habite and custome to be melancholike.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. iv. 1 How vse doth breed a habit in a man.

1647 A. Cowley Soule in Mistresse ii That constant they as Habits grow.

1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iii. xxii. 258 Habit is Motion made more easie and ready by Custome.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 89 Being thus used from their Childhood, and that habit being as it were converted into a second nature.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 158 Habits are said to be an Adventitious and Acquired Nature, and Nature was before defined by the Stoicks to be ἕξις, or a Habit: so that there seems to be no other Difference between these two, than this, that whereas the One is Acquired by Teaching, Industry and Exercise; the other..is..Inspired, by the Divine Art and Wisdom.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. xii. 197 Although it be hard for a Man late in life to remove old Habits.

1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 18 A dog who once takes to worry sheep never leaves off the habit.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. iii. 54 System of Habits, in a word, fixed-ways of acting and of believing.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. x. 178 Both..are tendencies to action; but..disposition properly denotes a natural tendency, habit an acquired tendency.

1898 N.E.D. at Habit Mod. The chimney has a habit of smoking when the fire is first lighted.

b. (Without a or plural): Custom, usage, use, wont.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun]

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habitudec1598

habiture1598

habit1605

wonting1665

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Yy2 But allowing his [sc. Aristotle's] Conclusion that vertues and vices consist in habit .

1659 J. Dryden Heroique Stanza's xxxvi, in E. Waller et al. Three Poems 9 Faction now by Habit does obey.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxii. 134 Which power or ability in Man, of doing any thing, when it has been acquired by frequent doing the same thing, is, that..Idea we name Habit.

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxvi. 543 Habit, the instrument of nature, is a great leveller; the familiarity which it induces, taking off the edge both of our pleasures and our sufferings.

1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. vii. 151 It is of the nature of habit to make acts easier and easier.

c. (Usually in plural) Applied to the natural or instinctive practices characteristic of particular kinds of animals, and to natural tendencies of plants.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] > of plants or animals

habit1774

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > a habit or practice > collectively > specifically of animals or plants

mannersc1400

ways1706

habit1774

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 203 Many of its [sc. the cat's] habits..are rather the consequences of its formation.

1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 263 A singular exception in the habits of creatures of the feline species.

1852 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. 584 Resembling the hare in general appearance and in many of its habits, the Rabbit is readily distinguished..by its smaller dimensions.

1880 C. Darwin & F. Darwin Power of Movement in Plants 128 Some relation between the habit of cotyledons rising vertically at night or going to sleep, and their sensitiveness..to a touch.

d. in the habit (†habits) of doing something: having a habit or custom of so doing. So to fall or get into the habit.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > in habitual or customary use [phrase] > in the habit (of)

to be in use1504

in a way ofc1704

in the habit (habits) of doing1801

by way of1824

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > act habitually [verb (intransitive)] > acquire a habit

to fall or get into the habita1878

1801 C. Smith Lett. Solitary Wanderer II. 287 [He] had..for near two years been in habits of occasional access to him.

1829 K. H. Digby Broad Stone of Honour: Godefridus xii. 66 Some very wise and devout men have been in habits of reading these romances.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 176 He was little in the habit of resisting importunate solicitation.

a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) 128 The world has fallen into a bad habit of naming everything after something else.

e. spec. in Psychology. An automatic, ‘mechanical’ reaction to a specific situation which usually has been acquired by learning and/or repetition.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > types of learning > [noun] > mechanical reaction

habit1859

1859 A. Bain Emotions & Will ix. 519 Some natures are distinguished by plasticity or the power of acquisition, and therefore realize more closely the saying that man is a bundle of habits.

1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. i. 1 Custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. iv. 104 The moment one tries to define what habit is, one is led to the fundamental properties of matter. The laws of Nature are nothing but the immutable habits which the different sorts of elementary matter follow in their actions and reactions upon each other.

1956 E. R. Hilgard Theories of Learning (ed. 2) i. 10 The stimulus-response theorist and the cognitive theorist come up with different answers to the question, What is learned? The answer of the former is ‘habits’; the answer of the latter is ‘cognitive structures’.

f. The practice of taking addictive drugs (see also quot. 1914). colloquial (originally U.S.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun]

habit1887

misuse1890

sleigh-ride1925

sleigh-riding1934

scoring1967

substance abuse1967

1887 in Amer. Speech (1948) 23 246/2 May he continue to wage war against them [sc. Chinese opium dens] until the habit has been swept entirely out of existence.

1894 Westm. Gaz. 23 July 3/2 The opiumate, if accused of the habit, usually pleads guilty.

1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 41 Habit, current amongst dope fiends. Necessity for opiates; a craving; the condition produced by habitual indulgence in drugs... Example: ‘I must drop into the hotel donegan (lavatory) and fire (take a hypodermic injection), for I feel my habit coming on.’

1926 J. Black You can't Win xii. 161 The sufferings they would undergo when there was no more and the ‘habit’ came on.

1959 Daily Mail 17 Oct. 7/3 ‘Do you have the habit?’ He knew she meant ‘Do you take drugs?’

†10. The condition of being accustomed to something through having constantly to do with it; familiarity. on intimate habits: on intimate terms, familiar. (Cf. habitude n. 3) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > [noun]

enqueyntance1297

knowledgec1384

homeliness1402

acquaintancec1540

familiarity1574

habit1586

discourse1603

frequence1603

familiarness1612

conversationa1626

conversea1652

acquaintedness1661

intimacy1714

inquaintancea1834

hability1840

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > homeliness or familiarity

homeliness1402

homeliheadc1450

habit1586

hominess1885

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > accustomedness > familiarity with a thing

familiarity1574

habit1586

frequence1603

familiarness1612

acquaintanceship1820

at-homeishness1842

at-home-ness1880

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > on friendly terms [phrase] > on intimate terms

on (also upon) terms1757

on intimate habits1809

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > [adjective] > knowing about, familiar with

craftyOE

slyc1175

coutha1225

well acquainteda1250

privyc1300

cunningc1325

well-groundeda1438

acquainted?a1439

familiar1509

at home1531

overseen1533

intelligent1546

long-experienced1567

conversant1573

skilful1596

accomplished1603

frequent1609

well (better, best) verseda1610

understanding1612

sound1615

studieda1616

technical1617

versed1622

conversing1724

versant1787

on intimate habits1809

special1830

inquainted1849

pre-acquainted1907

sophisticated1952

1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 208^v Why..cannot he discourse better of them, who hath had a longer and continuall habit in them?

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 414 By getting an habite of their languages and customes.

1714 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 3) I. iii. 399 Being brought up in this Discipline from Children, they acquir'd a Habit in Science.

1770 E. Burke Thoughts Present Discontents 65 The habit of affairs, if, on one hand, it tends to corrupt the mind, furnishes it, on the other, with the means of better information.

1809 W. Scott Let. 15 Aug. (1932) II. 219 They are on most intimate habits.

1810 Sporting Mag. 154 Those who were in the habits of his society.

1859 C. J. Lever Davenport Dunn (1872) ii. 20 ‘One gets a habit of the kind of people’, said Lady Lackington.

IV. Literal rendering of Latin habitus in Logic.

†11. Logic. The eighth of the categories or predicaments of Aristotle; Having or possession: in Greek ἔχειν, Latin habitus. (See category n. 1) Obsolete.Like the other categories, very variously understood and misunderstood by writers on logic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Aristotelianism > elements of

material cause1393

matterc1395

matter subjecta1398

predicamenta1425

quality?1537

first substance1551

predicable1551

property1551

proprium1551

transcendent1581

final cause1587

category1588

habit1588

ante-predicament?1596

postpredicament1599

entelechy1603

transumption1628

secondary1656

objective cause1668

transcendental1668

general substance1697

third man1801

thought-form1834

posterioristic universal1902

ousia1917

1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. xi. f. 49^v The affirmative is called the habite, the negative the privation thereof.

1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 93 To haue the habit, and to be deprived of the habit are opposed.

1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica i. ix. 30 Habit is a manner after which clothes, or anything like clothes are put about the body, appended, or in any way adjoined to it.

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 272 The Categories are the ten heads under which assertions or predications may be arranged;—..substance, quantity, relation, quality, place, time, position, habit, action, passion.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. (sense 1, 3).

habit-bodice n.

ΚΠ

1892 Daily News 2 July 6/7 The becoming habit-bodice of old, cut away on the hips and fitting like a good glove.

habit-maker n.

ΚΠ

1819 Post Office London Directory 84 Tailors and Habit-Makers.

habit-man n.

ΚΠ

1769 Stratford Jubilee i. i. 12 That valuable creature Mr. Pasquin the habit-man.

habit-shop n.

ΚΠ

1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless I. iv. 40 The woman at the habit-shop, in Covent-garden.

habit-skirt n.

ΚΠ

1894 Daily News 20 June 6/4 The habit skirt of to-day is surmounted by a riding jacket, generally of a totally different colour.

b. (sense 9, esp. 9e).

habit-bound adj.

ΚΠ

1863 J. G. Whittier Poet. Wks. (1874) 412/2 But what if, habit-bound, thy feet Shall lack the will to turn?

1922 W. B. Yeats Trembling of Veil 140 Old and habit-bound.

habit-breaker n.

ΚΠ

1932 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 54 Box 7 [in set of boxes designed for intelligence testing] was introduced as a habit breaker.

habit-formation n.

ΚΠ

1913 Lancet 27 Sept. 964/2 (title) A preliminary note on habit-formation in guinea~pigs.

1936 Mind 45 290 All habit-formation under the example, instruction, command, influence, of others is propaganda.

1961 Lancet 27 Aug. 485/1 Narcotics had not been used for fear of habit-formation.

habit-forming n. and adj.

ΚΠ

1899 W. James Talks to Teachers p. viii Maxims relative to habit-forming.

1913 A. E. Leach Food Inspection & Anal. (ed. 3) xxi. 955 (heading) Habit-forming drugs in beverages.

1958 J. Cannan And be Villain vii. 151 I didn't take any [sleeping pills] last night because if you keep on they might become habit-forming.

habit-worn adj.

ΚΠ

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xvi. 655 These habit-worn paths of association are a clear rendering of what authors mean by ‘predispositions’, ‘vestiges’, ‘traces’, etc., left in the brain by past experience.

† habit-wise adv. Obsolete

ΚΠ

a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI. Serm. (1661) xix. 389 His vigour..holdeth out habit-wise.

C2.

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habit-cloth n. a light broadcloth used for riding-habits and other outer garments.

habit-memory n. one of the two kinds of memory first distinguished by H. Bergson, which consists of motor mechanisms or ‘habits’ fixed in the organism and which acts in response to an appropriate stimulus, e.g. when repeating a lesson learnt by heart.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > [noun] > memory responding to stimulus

habit-memory1911

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > capacity for retaining experience > [noun] > in response to stimulus

habit-memory1911

1911 N. M. Paul & ‘W. S. Palmer’ in tr. H. L. Bergson Matter & Memory ii. 99 (margin) Automatism has a wide range, and representative memory is often superseded or masked by habit memory.

1912 Mind 21 226 M. Bergson, in contrasting these two forms of memory, makes the motor or habit-memory too mechanical.

1925 C. Fox Educ. Psychol. 140 Take two processes, habit-memory and image-memory respectively.

habit-neurosis n. a neurosis caused by habit-bound behaviour.

ΚΠ

1907 W. James Mem. & Stud. (1911) x. 239 There seems no doubt that we are each and all of us to some extent victims of habit-neurosis.

habit pattern n. a pattern of behaviour created by habit.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > pattern of behaviour created by habit

habit pattern1960

1960 G. Sanders Mem. Professional Cad ii. iv. 133 Once a man has acquired this habit pattern it will be intolerable for him to stay home at night.

1964 Word Study Feb. 2/2 Finalize and dollar-wise were deep-seated habit patterns long before Webster's Third displayed them.

habit-response n. a response induced by habit.

ΚΠ

1960 B. Malinowski Sex & Repression in Savage Society 194 The zoologist deals with specific instinctive behaviour, the anthropologist with a culturally fashioned habit-response.

habit-shirt n. a kind of chemisette with linen collar, worn by women under the outer bodice.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for chest or breast > types of > to cover woman's breast

stomach1473

patlet?a1505

partlet1515

stomacher1535

under-forebody1547

square1579

forepart1600

poitrel1607

half-shirt1661

tucker1688

modesty piece1713

modesty1731

modesty-bit1731

buffon1774

habit-shirt1780

chemisette1806

guimpe1850

bandeau1915

monobosom1970

bralette1973

modesty vest1974

1780 Public Advertiser 21 Oct. (advt.) Two pair of habit shirt ruffles and frills.

1834 J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume 245 A covering for the neck and throat, similar to what is now called a habit-shirt.

1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen viii. 122 ‘Dress’, and ‘frock’, and ‘boddice’, and ‘collar’, and ‘habit-shirt’, and sweet ‘chemisette’.

1912 E. Glyn Halcyone ii. 16 Miss Roberta..had her thin bones covered with a habit shirt of tulle.

habit spasm n. Medicine = tic n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp > type of spasm > tic or twitch

spasm1477

vellication1665

subsultus1696

tic douloureux1800

tic1822

jerking1827

live blood1834

nervous tic1858

jactitation1861

habit spasm1888

myokymia1901

fasciculation1938

1888 W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. II. v. 586 Children often..present spasmodic movements such as winking, twitching the mouth, jerking the head..which the individuals are unable to control... This condition has been termed ‘habit-chorea’..but..‘habit-spasm’ is, I think, a better name.

1940 S. A. K. Wilson Neurol. II. 1629 In France the word ‘tic’ has been employed for centuries to denote a habitual, unpleasing gesture; but only within the last 30 years has it been current in English neurology, replacing the incorrect ‘habit-spasm’ or ‘habit-chorea’ of prior date.

habit strength n. (see quot. 1958); also called sHr.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > [noun] > determined by

habit strength1948

1948 E. R. Hilgard Theories of Learning iv. 83 Habit strength increases when receptor and effector activities occur in close temporal contiguity.

1951 C. L. Hull Essent. of Behavior xiv. 57 We have presented evidence..to indicate the quantitative molar law according to which habit strength ( sHr), primary motivation or drive (D), incentive motivation (K)..and the delay in reinforcement (J) respectively operate as functions in the determination of reaction potential.

1958 H. B. English & A. C. English Dict. Psychol. Terms 235/2 Habit strength or sHr, (C. Hull) an inferred part of the organism that is determined by variation in four empirical determinants: number of reinforcements, amount of reinforcing agents, time between stimulation and response, time between response and reinforcement.

1959 W. H. Lambert & S. Fillenbaum in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) vii. 455/1 An important paper by Pitres..offered a different generalization in order to account for..the effect of aphasia on polyglots. In essence, Pitres' is a habit strength principle which states that the language or languages most used before the aphasic insult will be the first to recover.

habit-training n. the training of an infant or child in regular habits of behaviour, often specifically referring to hygiene, sleeping, and eating.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > upbringing > [noun] > habit-training

habit-training1927

1927 A. Gesell in C. W. Kimmins Mental & Physical Welfare of Child iii. 40 Wholesome habit training in infancy lays the foundation of mental health... Feeding, sleeping, bladder control, bowel control—these are not physical matters. They are ‘mental’.

1939 E. R. Boyce Infant School Activities 240 Habit-training. The nursery school and class has been closely associated with training in good physical habits and with attention to the health of the child.

1960 I. Bennett Delinquent & Neurotic Children v. 181 Difficulties in habit-training may be expected in both delinquent and neurotic children. Both types..are likely to express early difficulties in the form of sleep disturbances, feeding disturbances, or disturbances in bladder or bowel control.

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单词	habit
释义	habitn. Brit. /ˈhabɪt/, U.S. /ˈhæbət/ Forms: α. Middle English abit, abyt, Middle English–1500s abite, abyte, (Middle English abbyte, 1500s abbit, abbet(te, abbytte, Scottish -eit). β. Middle English–1600s habite, Middle English–1500s habyte, (Middle English habet, 1500s habitt, habbet, habett(e, Scottish habeit, 1500s–1600s habette), Middle English– habit. Etymology: < Old French habit, abit (12th cent. in Littré) = Provençal abit, habit, Italian abito; < Latin habitus, noun of action (u- stem), < habēre to have, (reflexive) to be constituted, to be.The sense development, as seen in Latin and the modern languages taken together, is thus: originally Holding, having, ‘havour’; hence the way in which one holds or has oneself, i.e. the mode or condition in which one is, exists, or exhibits oneself, a) externally; hence demeanour, outward appearance, fashion of body, mode of clothing oneself, dress, habitation; b) in mind, character, or life; hence, mental constitution, character, disposition, way of acting, comporting oneself, or dealing with things, habitual or customary way (of acting, etc.), personal custom, accustomedness. This development was largely completed in ancient Latin, and had received some extension in Old French, before the word became English; in English, senses were taken, from time to time, < French or Latin, without reference to their original order of development; hence the chronological order in English is in no way parallel to the original; and the arrangement below is only partly chronological. In modern French the word is narrowed down to branch I, other senses being supplied by habitude; thus English ‘habit’ is co-extensive with the two French words, and its chief sense corresponds not to French habit but to French habitude. I. Fashion or mode of apparel, dress. 1. a. Bodily apparel or attire; clothing, raiment, dress. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun] clothesc888 hattersOE shroudc1000 weedOE shrouda1122 clothc1175 hatteringa1200 atourc1220 back-clout?c1225 habit?c1225 clothingc1275 cleadinga1300 dubbinga1300 shroudinga1300 attirec1300 coverturec1300 suitc1325 apparel1330 buskingc1330 farec1330 harness1340 tire1340 backs1341 geara1350 apparelmentc1374 attiringa1375 vesturec1385 heelinga1387 vestmentc1386 arraya1400 graitha1400 livery1399 tirementa1400 warnementa1400 arrayment1400 parelc1400 werlec1400 raiment?a1425 robinga1450 rayc1450 implements1454 willokc1460 habiliment1470 emparelc1475 atourement1481 indumenta1513 reparel1521 wearing gear1542 revesture1548 claesc1550 case1559 attirement1566 furniture1566 investuring1566 apparelling1567 dud1567 hilback1573 wear1576 dress1586 enfolding1586 caparison1589 plight1590 address1592 ward-ware1598 garnish1600 investments1600 ditement1603 dressing1603 waith1603 thing1605 vestry1606 garb1608 outwall1608 accoutrementa1610 wearing apparel1617 coutrement1621 vestament1632 vestiment1637 equipage1645 cask1646 aguise1647 back-timbera1656 investiture1660 rigging1664 drapery1686 vest1694 plumage1707 bussingc1712 hull1718 paraphernalia1736 togs1779 body clothing1802 slough1808 toggery1812 traps1813 garniture1827 body-clothes1828 garmenture1832 costume1838 fig1839 outfit1840 vestiture1841 outer womana1845 outward man1846 vestiary1846 rag1855 drag1870 clo'1874 parapherna1876 clobber1879 threads1926 mocker1939 schmatte1959 vine1959 kit1989 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 11 Þe annesse Of an luue & of an wil þet heo alle habbeð imene wið innen. wið hare abit þet is an. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 141 Þe abyt þat þou hatz vpon, no halyday hit menskez. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 68/1 Saul thenne changed his habyte and clothyng and dyde on other clothyng. 1592 R. Johnson Nine Worthies sig. F3 The verie aspect of his outwarde abite. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 114 It is her habite onely, that is honest, Her selfe's a Bawd. View more context for this quotation 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 24 Their habit like to Adams, a few Plantaine leaues only fixt about their middles. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1651 (1955) III. 40 He went about in Womens habits [or habite], & then in a Small-Coale-mans. 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 336 In the vile habit of a village slave. 1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 111 The chief peculiarity in his habit was a deep lace ruff. b. with a and plural. A set or suit of clothes, a dress (of some specified kind). archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] wearing?c1225 guisec1275 attire1382 habita1420 shapea1425 trick1542 fashion1544 trim1579 suit shape1598 garb1608 form1664 toilet1752 macaroni dressa1777 turn-out1812 style1814 set-out1834 get-up1842 rig1843 feather1854 model1859 make-up1883 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] habita1420 standc1450 suitc1475 sluch1582 standard1631 rig-out1824 outfit1840 suiting1863 shape1886 rig-up1896 bag of fruit1924 ensemble1927 whistle and flute1931 vine1932 drape1945 a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 414 Undir an olde poore habite reignethe ofte Grete vertu. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) lxvi. 305 Weddid..In a simple Abyt. 1521 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1882) I. 183 To have oon abbit after such fourme. c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 197 The Collonell himselfe had on that day a habitt which was pretty rich but grave. a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 170 Being thinly clothed with one of the digger's habits. 1761–2 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) III. 465 She dressed herself in a rich habit of silk and velvet. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 104/1 Women..were not to go out of town with more than three habits. 1808 Sketches of Char. (1813) I. 180 [They] went on horseback, in a uniform habit, all blue and silver. c. plural. Clothes, garments, habiliments. archaic. ΚΠ 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 109 Lo here my habytes that be requysite. 1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 257 Your habites denie you to be of any place heereabouts. 1637 J. Milton Comus 6 Lest the place And my queint habits breed astonishment. 1735 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. V. 222 These had put on women's habits over their armour. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 271 [The bodies of] two princes in the habits they used to wear. d. Hence in singular. A garment; a gown or robe. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > robe or gown robec1225 gownc1400 habit1716 1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 4 Thy Doily Habit. 1728 T. Sheridan tr. Persius Satyrs (1739) v. 66 The Toga was the Habit worn in Peace. 1771 Mrs. J. Harris in Private Lett. Ld. Malmesbury (1870) I. 214 Mr. Cambridge borrowed a dress for her, which was pretty and fine, the habit muslin with green and gold sprigs, with a turban and veil. 1857 A. Jameson Legends Madonna (ed. 2) 19 St. Catherine of Siena, her habit spangled with stars. e. transferred and figurative. Outward form or appearance; guise; ‘dress’, ‘garb’. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [noun] > mere appearance shroudc1175 frontc1374 appearancec1384 countenance?c1425 fard1540 show1547 habit1549 outside1578 glimpse1579 superficies?1589 species1598 out-term1602 paint1608 surface1613 superfice1615 umbrage1639 superficials1652 semblance1843 outer womana1845 outward man1846 patina1957 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Heb. i. f. ii Hauing vpon hym the habite of mans body. 1618 G. Wither Wither's Motto in Wks. (1633) 518 I will ever finde Meanes to maintaine a habit for my Minde Of Truth in graine. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. ii. §9 Though Plato thus..disfigured the habit of his Jewish Traditions. 1825 H. W. Longfellow Autumn in U.S. Lit. Gaz. 1 Oct. 29 The silver habit of the clouds. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems II. 13 Tory to-day, and Whig to-morrow, All habits and all shapes he wore. 2. spec. a. The dress or attire characteristic of a particular rank, degree, profession, or function; esp. the dress of a religious order; the habit, the monastic order or profession (cf. ‘the cowl’). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > monastic garb > [noun] weedOE habitc1290 society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > monastic life or condition monkhoodeOE religiona1200 habitc1290 monkheada1400 religiosityc1443 monkery?1536 monachism?1570 monkship1620 cowl1653 monkism1659 monkishnessa1729 the cloister1781 monasticism1795 monkliness1887 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 20/45 Him-sulf he nam þe Abite þere: and Monek formest bi-cam. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 172 His abite he gan forsake, his ordre lete alle doune. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. Prol. 3 In Habite of an Hermite [1393 C.: In Abit as an Ermite]. c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 353 In kinges abyt went hir sones tuo. c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 67 Goo stele an abite, & bicome a frere. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 85 Frerys whome you wold juge to be borne in the habyte they are so lytyl & yong. 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell x. 131 So that a Biscayner is capable to be a Cavalier of any of the three habits. 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 17 The several Faculties..are distinguished by their Habits: Divinity-Students wear constantly Gowns and square Caps. 1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xliii. 471 Puritans, that is, such as refused the habits. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. v. 129 Magellan, whom the king honoured with the habit of St. Jago. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. ii. 110 The foreign reformers then in England..expressed their dissatisfaction at seeing these habits retained. 1894 J. T. Fowler in St. Adamnan Vita S. Columbae Introd. 77 While walking his hands were clasped under his habit. b. In the Greek Church: lesser habit, the dress of the proficients or monastics of the second degree. great or great angelic habit, the dress of the monastics of the third degree, termed the perfects. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > monastic garb > monk's garb > [noun] > for monastic of third degree great or great angelic habit1772 society > faith > artefacts > monastic garb > monk's garb > [noun] > for monastic of second degree lesser habit1772 1772 J. G. King Rites Greek Church in Russia 366 [After completing their novitiate] they proceed to take the lesser habit or χήμα. 1772 J. G. King Rites Greek Church in Russia 366 They take..last of all, the great angelic habit. 3. = riding habit n.: A dress worn by ladies on horseback; a lady's riding-dress. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > for specific people > for women > for riding riding habit1652 habita1817 amazone1825 a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1666 (1955) III. 463 The Queene was now in her Cavaliers riding habite. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 104. ⁋3 The Model of this Amazonian Hunting-Habit for Ladies, was, as I take it, first imported from France.] a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) II. vi. 92 Her habit therefore was thrown off with all possible haste. View more context for this quotation 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. iv. 98 The elegant compromise betwixt male and female attire, which has now acquired, par excellence, the name of a habit. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xix. i, in Maud & Other Poems 63 Whether The habit, hat, and feather, Or the frock and gipsy bonnet Be the neater and completer. 1879 G. J. Whyte-Melville Riding Recoll. (ed. 7) vii. 121 The habit and the side-saddle. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. vii. 129 The St. Aubyn girls were breakfasting in their habits and hats. II. External deportment, constitution, or appearance; habitation. †4. Bearing, demeanour, deportment, behaviour; posture. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > demeanour or bearing i-bereOE i-letelOE lundc1175 semblanta1240 countenancec1290 fare1297 porturec1300 bearinga1325 portc1330 abearc1350 demeaning14.. habit1413 apporta1423 havingsa1425 maintenance?c1436 demeanc1450 maintain?1473 deport1474 maintaining1477 demeanance1486 affair1487 containing1487 behaviour1490 representation1490 haviour?1504 demeanour1509 miena1522 function1578 amenance1590 comportance1590 portance1590 purport1590 manage1593 style1596 dispose1601 deportments1603 comportment1605 garb1605 aira1616 deportment1638 comport1660 tour1702 sway1753 disport1761 maintien1814 tenue1828 portment1833 allure1841 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. v. 60 Me semyth by semblaunt and by habyte that ye shold be Iustyce. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iii. i. 168 A stately man of habyte of chere and of maynten. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. B Noble and milde this Persean seemes to be, If outward habit iudge the inward man. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 154 So of lying or other habit of body. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 29 The habit and behaviour of this great Prince. 1687 C. Sedley Bellamira iii, in Wks. (1722) II. 136 What's the meaning of this Habit? I never saw a man so overjoy'd. 5. a. Bodily condition or constitution. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > [noun] naturec1275 kindc1300 complexion1398 habitudec1400 disposition1477 constitution1553 corporature1555 habit1576 composition1578 temper1601 composure1628 schesis1684 stamina1701 habitus1886 1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. Epitome sig. Aij^v Of the habite of his body, or corporall proportion..hee is a faire and well fauoured Gentleman. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §354 Cardamon which..made them grow better, and be of a more active habit. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 3. ¶3 She would revive..out of a wasting Distemper, into a Habit of the highest Health and Vigour. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Habit, in Medicine, is what we otherwise call the Temperament, or Constitution of the Body, whether obtain'd by Birth, or Manner of Living. 1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity I. ii. 211 A being..of a delicate tender habit. 1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 48 To bring the moral patient to a better habit. 1812 T. Amyot Some Acct. Life W. Windham I. 4 A victim to a consumptive habit. 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. i. i. 4 Originally..of a spare habit, but now a little inclined to corpulency. †b. concrete. The bodily ‘system’. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > system > [noun] habit1584 system1692 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health i. 4 Least..anie of the excrements shoulde hastilie be receiued into the habit of the bodie. 1652 J. French York-shire Spaw x. 91 If it be retained in the habit of the body and veins. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) A Thing is said to enter the Habit, when it becomes intimately diffused throughout the Body; and is convey'd to the remotest Stages of Circulation. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. iii. 138 Water..would..dissolve these..Concretions..and help to carry them out of the Habit. †c. The outer part, surface, or external appearance of the body. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > [noun] > with regard to appearance form1297 personc1390 personage1461 moul1565 mould1580 shape1602 flesha1616 habit1652 figure1717 1652 J. French York-shire Spaw xii. 98 The humours being drawn outwardly towards the habit of the body. 1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks ii. ii. 49 Some parts of Air, may continually pass into the Body and Blood, by the habit, or pores of the skin. 1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 316 The crass, dispirited Serum settles in the Legs, and every where outwardly upon the Habit. 6. Zoology and Botany. The characteristic mode of growth and general external appearance of an animal or plant. Hence transferred; e.g. in Crystallography the characteristic mode of formation of a crystal. ΘΚΠ the world > life > [noun] > general characteristics of habit1691 life form1896 the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > [noun] > habit habit1691 port1721 the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > crystal habit > [noun] crystal habit1887 habit1895 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 6 The same Insect under a different larva or Habit. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxxii. 492 You know them by their air, or habit, as Botanists usually call it. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 551 When..you know the name of one species, and find another of the same general habit. 1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. II. xxi. 99 Plants..of a tufted habit. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 34 Exotic species with the habit of Nasturtium. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. v. 90 Languages of other habit than ours. 1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. vi. §151 Such differences, then, may generally be held to indicate a mero-symmetrical habit. †7. Habitation, abode. [So in Old French] Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] wonningc960 bewistc1200 livingc1350 lodging1362 habitationc1374 indwellinga1382 dwellingc1384 inhabitinga1400 bidingc1400 inhabitationc1400 residencec1405 mansiona1425 winningc1425 demur1444 abodec1450 resianty1467 demurrance1509 resiance1566 place-being1567 residency1579 resiancy1580 commorancy1586 residing1587 inhabitance1588 abodement1592 commorance1594 habit1603 commoration1623 inwoning1647 inhabitancy1681 habitancy1792 domicile1835 occupying1849 abidal1850 tenancy1856 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxii. 47 Our greatest vices, make their first habite in vs, from our infancie. III. Mental constitution, disposition, custom. 8. The way in which a person is mentally or morally constituted; the sum of the mental and moral qualities; mental constitution, disposition, character. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] heartOE erda1000 moodOE i-mindOE i-cundeOE costc1175 lundc1175 evena1200 kinda1225 custc1275 couragec1300 the manner ofc1300 qualityc1300 talentc1330 attemperancec1374 complexionc1386 dispositiona1387 propertyc1390 naturea1393 assay1393 inclinationa1398 gentlenessa1400 proprietya1400 habitudec1400 makingc1400 conditionc1405 habitc1405 conceitc1425 affecta1460 ingeny1477 engine1488 stomach?1510 mind?a1513 ingine1533 affection1534 vein1536 humour?1563 natural1564 facultyc1565 concept1566 frame1567 temperature1583 geniusa1586 bent1587 constitution1589 composition1597 character1600 tune1600 qualification1602 infusion1604 spirits1604 dispose1609 selfness1611 disposure1613 composurea1616 racea1616 tempera1616 crasisc1616 directiona1639 grain1641 turn1647 complexure1648 genie1653 make1674 personality1710 tonea1751 bearing1795 liver1800 make-up1821 temperament1821 naturalness1850 selfhood1854 Wesen1854 naturel1856 sit1857 fibre1864 character structure1873 mentality1895 mindset1909 psyche1910 where it's (he's, she's) at1967 c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 520 And shortly turned was al vp so down Bothe habit and eek disposicioun Of hym. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 11^v If we respect more the outward shape, then the inwarde habit. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. ii. xi. 45 The principall Habits are two in number, Vertue, and Vice. 1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 179 It Argues a well-ordered Frame and good Habit of Mind. 1721 E. Young Revenge i. i You..suit the gloomy habit of my soul. 1895 Bookman Oct. 27/1 The lecture plan and the lecturer's habit of mind are visible throughout. 9. a. A settled disposition or tendency to act in a certain way, esp. one acquired by frequent repetition of the same act until it becomes almost or quite involuntary; a settled practice, custom, usage; a customary way or manner of acting. (The most usual current sense. Chiefly said of living beings; in modern use occasionally of inanimate things.) [There is no etymological ground for the distinctive use of ‘habit’ for an acquired tendency; but in philosophical language, such a sense occurs already in Cicero, Inv. 1, 25, 36, ‘habitum appellamus..item corporis aliquam commoditatem, non natura datam, sed studio et industria partam’. The sense is late in French and English: Cotgrave has ‘Habit..also an habit; a fashion setled, a vse or custome gotten’.] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > a habit or practice thewc888 customa1200 wonec1200 moursc1250 usec1384 usancea1393 usagea1400 stylec1430 practice1502 commona1525 frequentation1525 ordinary1526 trade?1543 vein1549 habit1581 rut1581 habitude1603 mores1648 tread1817 dastur1888 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 4 b By long studie and great contemplation..got an habite and custome to be melancholike. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. iv. 1 How vse doth breed a habit in a man. View more context for this quotation 1647 A. Cowley Soule in Mistresse ii That constant they as Habits grow. 1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iii. xxii. 258 Habit is Motion made more easie and ready by Custome. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 89 Being thus used from their Childhood, and that habit being as it were converted into a second nature. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 158 Habits are said to be an Adventitious and Acquired Nature, and Nature was before defined by the Stoicks to be ἕξις, or a Habit: so that there seems to be no other Difference between these two, than this, that whereas the One is Acquired by Teaching, Industry and Exercise; the other..is..Inspired, by the Divine Art and Wisdom. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. xii. 197 Although it be hard for a Man late in life to remove old Habits. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 18 A dog who once takes to worry sheep never leaves off the habit. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. iii. 54 System of Habits, in a word, fixed-ways of acting and of believing. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. x. 178 Both..are tendencies to action; but..disposition properly denotes a natural tendency, habit an acquired tendency. 1898 N.E.D. at Habit Mod. The chimney has a habit of smoking when the fire is first lighted. b. (Without a or plural): Custom, usage, use, wont. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] i-wunec888 wise971 gatec1175 lawc1175 manners?c1225 wone?c1225 usec1325 hauntc1330 use1340 rotec1350 consuetude1382 customancea1393 usancea1393 practicc1395 guisea1400 usagea1400 wonta1400 spacec1400 accustomancec1405 customheada1425 urec1425 wontsomenessc1425 accustomc1440 wonningc1440 practice1502 habitudec1598 habiture1598 habit1605 wonting1665 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Yy2 But allowing his [sc. Aristotle's] Conclusion that vertues and vices consist in habit . View more context for this quotation 1659 J. Dryden Heroique Stanza's xxxvi, in E. Waller et al. Three Poems 9 Faction now by Habit does obey. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxii. 134 Which power or ability in Man, of doing any thing, when it has been acquired by frequent doing the same thing, is, that..Idea we name Habit. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxvi. 543 Habit, the instrument of nature, is a great leveller; the familiarity which it induces, taking off the edge both of our pleasures and our sufferings. 1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. vii. 151 It is of the nature of habit to make acts easier and easier. c. (Usually in plural) Applied to the natural or instinctive practices characteristic of particular kinds of animals, and to natural tendencies of plants. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] > of plants or animals habit1774 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > a habit or practice > collectively > specifically of animals or plants mannersc1400 ways1706 habit1774 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 203 Many of its [sc. the cat's] habits..are rather the consequences of its formation. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 263 A singular exception in the habits of creatures of the feline species. 1852 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. 584 Resembling the hare in general appearance and in many of its habits, the Rabbit is readily distinguished..by its smaller dimensions. 1880 C. Darwin & F. Darwin Power of Movement in Plants 128 Some relation between the habit of cotyledons rising vertically at night or going to sleep, and their sensitiveness..to a touch. d. in the habit (†habits) of doing something: having a habit or custom of so doing. So to fall or get into the habit. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > in habitual or customary use [phrase] > in the habit (of) to be in use1504 in a way ofc1704 in the habit (habits) of doing1801 by way of1824 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > act habitually [verb (intransitive)] > acquire a habit to fall or get into the habita1878 1801 C. Smith Lett. Solitary Wanderer II. 287 [He] had..for near two years been in habits of occasional access to him. 1829 K. H. Digby Broad Stone of Honour: Godefridus xii. 66 Some very wise and devout men have been in habits of reading these romances. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 176 He was little in the habit of resisting importunate solicitation. a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) 128 The world has fallen into a bad habit of naming everything after something else. e. spec. in Psychology. An automatic, ‘mechanical’ reaction to a specific situation which usually has been acquired by learning and/or repetition. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > types of learning > [noun] > mechanical reaction habit1859 1859 A. Bain Emotions & Will ix. 519 Some natures are distinguished by plasticity or the power of acquisition, and therefore realize more closely the saying that man is a bundle of habits. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. i. 1 Custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. iv. 104 The moment one tries to define what habit is, one is led to the fundamental properties of matter. The laws of Nature are nothing but the immutable habits which the different sorts of elementary matter follow in their actions and reactions upon each other. 1956 E. R. Hilgard Theories of Learning (ed. 2) i. 10 The stimulus-response theorist and the cognitive theorist come up with different answers to the question, What is learned? The answer of the former is ‘habits’; the answer of the latter is ‘cognitive structures’. f. The practice of taking addictive drugs (see also quot. 1914). colloquial (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] habit1887 misuse1890 sleigh-ride1925 sleigh-riding1934 scoring1967 substance abuse1967 1887 in Amer. Speech (1948) 23 246/2 May he continue to wage war against them [sc. Chinese opium dens] until the habit has been swept entirely out of existence. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 23 July 3/2 The opiumate, if accused of the habit, usually pleads guilty. 1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 41 Habit, current amongst dope fiends. Necessity for opiates; a craving; the condition produced by habitual indulgence in drugs... Example: ‘I must drop into the hotel donegan (lavatory) and fire (take a hypodermic injection), for I feel my habit coming on.’ 1926 J. Black You can't Win xii. 161 The sufferings they would undergo when there was no more and the ‘habit’ came on. 1959 Daily Mail 17 Oct. 7/3 ‘Do you have the habit?’ He knew she meant ‘Do you take drugs?’ †10. The condition of being accustomed to something through having constantly to do with it; familiarity. on intimate habits: on intimate terms, familiar. (Cf. habitude n. 3) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > [noun] enqueyntance1297 knowledgec1384 homeliness1402 acquaintancec1540 familiarity1574 habit1586 discourse1603 frequence1603 familiarness1612 conversationa1626 conversea1652 acquaintedness1661 intimacy1714 inquaintancea1834 hability1840 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > homeliness or familiarity homeliness1402 homeliheadc1450 habit1586 hominess1885 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > accustomedness > familiarity with a thing familiarity1574 habit1586 frequence1603 familiarness1612 acquaintanceship1820 at-homeishness1842 at-home-ness1880 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > on friendly terms [phrase] > on intimate terms on (also upon) terms1757 on intimate habits1809 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > [adjective] > knowing about, familiar with craftyOE slyc1175 coutha1225 well acquainteda1250 privyc1300 cunningc1325 well-groundeda1438 acquainted?a1439 familiar1509 at home1531 overseen1533 intelligent1546 long-experienced1567 conversant1573 skilful1596 accomplished1603 frequent1609 well (better, best) verseda1610 understanding1612 sound1615 studieda1616 technical1617 versed1622 conversing1724 versant1787 on intimate habits1809 special1830 inquainted1849 pre-acquainted1907 sophisticated1952 1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 208^v Why..cannot he discourse better of them, who hath had a longer and continuall habit in them? 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 414 By getting an habite of their languages and customes. 1714 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 3) I. iii. 399 Being brought up in this Discipline from Children, they acquir'd a Habit in Science. 1770 E. Burke Thoughts Present Discontents 65 The habit of affairs, if, on one hand, it tends to corrupt the mind, furnishes it, on the other, with the means of better information. 1809 W. Scott Let. 15 Aug. (1932) II. 219 They are on most intimate habits. 1810 Sporting Mag. 154 Those who were in the habits of his society. 1859 C. J. Lever Davenport Dunn (1872) ii. 20 ‘One gets a habit of the kind of people’, said Lady Lackington. IV. Literal rendering of Latin habitus in Logic. †11. Logic. The eighth of the categories or predicaments of Aristotle; Having or possession: in Greek ἔχειν, Latin habitus. (See category n. 1) Obsolete.Like the other categories, very variously understood and misunderstood by writers on logic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Aristotelianism > elements of material cause1393 matterc1395 matter subjecta1398 predicamenta1425 quality?1537 first substance1551 predicable1551 property1551 proprium1551 transcendent1581 final cause1587 category1588 habit1588 ante-predicament?1596 postpredicament1599 entelechy1603 transumption1628 secondary1656 objective cause1668 transcendental1668 general substance1697 third man1801 thought-form1834 posterioristic universal1902 ousia1917 1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. xi. f. 49^v The affirmative is called the habite, the negative the privation thereof. 1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 93 To haue the habit, and to be deprived of the habit are opposed. 1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica i. ix. 30 Habit is a manner after which clothes, or anything like clothes are put about the body, appended, or in any way adjoined to it. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 272 The Categories are the ten heads under which assertions or predications may be arranged;—..substance, quantity, relation, quality, place, time, position, habit, action, passion. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. (sense 1, 3). habit-bodice n. ΚΠ 1892 Daily News 2 July 6/7 The becoming habit-bodice of old, cut away on the hips and fitting like a good glove. habit-maker n. ΚΠ 1819 Post Office London Directory 84 Tailors and Habit-Makers. habit-man n. ΚΠ 1769 Stratford Jubilee i. i. 12 That valuable creature Mr. Pasquin the habit-man. habit-shop n. ΚΠ 1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless I. iv. 40 The woman at the habit-shop, in Covent-garden. habit-skirt n. ΚΠ 1894 Daily News 20 June 6/4 The habit skirt of to-day is surmounted by a riding jacket, generally of a totally different colour. b. (sense 9, esp. 9e). habit-bound adj. ΚΠ 1863 J. G. Whittier Poet. Wks. (1874) 412/2 But what if, habit-bound, thy feet Shall lack the will to turn? 1922 W. B. Yeats Trembling of Veil 140 Old and habit-bound. c. habit-breaker n. ΚΠ 1932 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 54 Box 7 [in set of boxes designed for intelligence testing] was introduced as a habit breaker. habit-formation n. ΚΠ 1913 Lancet 27 Sept. 964/2 (title) A preliminary note on habit-formation in guinea~pigs. 1936 Mind 45 290 All habit-formation under the example, instruction, command, influence, of others is propaganda. 1961 Lancet 27 Aug. 485/1 Narcotics had not been used for fear of habit-formation. d. habit-forming n. and adj. ΚΠ 1899 W. James Talks to Teachers p. viii Maxims relative to habit-forming. 1913 A. E. Leach Food Inspection & Anal. (ed. 3) xxi. 955 (heading) Habit-forming drugs in beverages. 1958 J. Cannan And be Villain vii. 151 I didn't take any [sleeping pills] last night because if you keep on they might become habit-forming. habit-worn adj. ΚΠ 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xvi. 655 These habit-worn paths of association are a clear rendering of what authors mean by ‘predispositions’, ‘vestiges’, ‘traces’, etc., left in the brain by past experience. e. † habit-wise adv. Obsolete ΚΠ a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI. Serm. (1661) xix. 389 His vigour..holdeth out habit-wise. C2. Categories » habit-cloth n. a light broadcloth used for riding-habits and other outer garments. habit-memory n. one of the two kinds of memory first distinguished by H. Bergson, which consists of motor mechanisms or ‘habits’ fixed in the organism and which acts in response to an appropriate stimulus, e.g. when repeating a lesson learnt by heart. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > [noun] > memory responding to stimulus habit-memory1911 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > capacity for retaining experience > [noun] > in response to stimulus habit-memory1911 1911 N. M. Paul & ‘W. S. Palmer’ in tr. H. L. Bergson Matter & Memory ii. 99 (margin) Automatism has a wide range, and representative memory is often superseded or masked by habit memory. 1912 Mind 21 226 M. Bergson, in contrasting these two forms of memory, makes the motor or habit-memory too mechanical. 1925 C. Fox Educ. Psychol. 140 Take two processes, habit-memory and image-memory respectively. habit-neurosis n. a neurosis caused by habit-bound behaviour. ΚΠ 1907 W. James Mem. & Stud. (1911) x. 239 There seems no doubt that we are each and all of us to some extent victims of habit-neurosis. habit pattern n. a pattern of behaviour created by habit. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > pattern of behaviour created by habit habit pattern1960 1960 G. Sanders Mem. Professional Cad ii. iv. 133 Once a man has acquired this habit pattern it will be intolerable for him to stay home at night. 1964 Word Study Feb. 2/2 Finalize and dollar-wise were deep-seated habit patterns long before Webster's Third displayed them. habit-response n. a response induced by habit. ΚΠ 1960 B. Malinowski Sex & Repression in Savage Society 194 The zoologist deals with specific instinctive behaviour, the anthropologist with a culturally fashioned habit-response. habit-shirt n. a kind of chemisette with linen collar, worn by women under the outer bodice. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for chest or breast > types of > to cover woman's breast stomach1473 patlet?a1505 partlet1515 stomacher1535 under-forebody1547 square1579 forepart1600 poitrel1607 half-shirt1661 tucker1688 modesty piece1713 modesty1731 modesty-bit1731 buffon1774 habit-shirt1780 chemisette1806 guimpe1850 bandeau1915 monobosom1970 bralette1973 modesty vest1974 1780 Public Advertiser 21 Oct. (advt.) Two pair of habit shirt ruffles and frills. 1834 J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume 245 A covering for the neck and throat, similar to what is now called a habit-shirt. 1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen viii. 122 ‘Dress’, and ‘frock’, and ‘boddice’, and ‘collar’, and ‘habit-shirt’, and sweet ‘chemisette’. 1912 E. Glyn Halcyone ii. 16 Miss Roberta..had her thin bones covered with a habit shirt of tulle. habit spasm n. Medicine = tic n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp > type of spasm > tic or twitch spasm1477 vellication1665 subsultus1696 tic douloureux1800 tic1822 jerking1827 live blood1834 nervous tic1858 jactitation1861 habit spasm1888 myokymia1901 fasciculation1938 1888 W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. II. v. 586 Children often..present spasmodic movements such as winking, twitching the mouth, jerking the head..which the individuals are unable to control... This condition has been termed ‘habit-chorea’..but..‘habit-spasm’ is, I think, a better name. 1940 S. A. K. Wilson Neurol. II. 1629 In France the word ‘tic’ has been employed for centuries to denote a habitual, unpleasing gesture; but only within the last 30 years has it been current in English neurology, replacing the incorrect ‘habit-spasm’ or ‘habit-chorea’ of prior date. habit strength n. (see quot. 1958); also called sHr. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > [noun] > determined by habit strength1948 1948 E. R. Hilgard Theories of Learning iv. 83 Habit strength increases when receptor and effector activities occur in close temporal contiguity. 1951 C. L. Hull Essent. of Behavior xiv. 57 We have presented evidence..to indicate the quantitative molar law according to which habit strength ( sHr), primary motivation or drive (D), incentive motivation (K)..and the delay in reinforcement (J) respectively operate as functions in the determination of reaction potential. 1958 H. B. English & A. C. English Dict. Psychol. Terms 235/2 Habit strength or sHr, (C. Hull) an inferred part of the organism that is determined by variation in four empirical determinants: number of reinforcements, amount of reinforcing agents, time between stimulation and response, time between response and reinforcement. 1959 W. H. Lambert & S. Fillenbaum in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) vii. 455/1 An important paper by Pitres..offered a different generalization in order to account for..the effect of aphasia on polyglots. In essence, Pitres' is a habit strength principle which states that the language or languages most used before the aphasic insult will be the first to recover. habit-training n. the training of an infant or child in regular habits of behaviour, often specifically referring to hygiene, sleeping, and eating. ΘΚΠ society > education > upbringing > [noun] > habit-training habit-training1927 1927 A. Gesell in C. W. Kimmins Mental & Physical Welfare of Child iii. 40 Wholesome habit training in infancy lays the foundation of mental health... Feeding, sleeping, bladder control, bowel control—these are not physical matters. They are ‘mental’. 1939 E. R. Boyce Infant School Activities 240 Habit-training. The nursery school and class has been closely associated with training in good physical habits and with attention to the health of the child. 1960 I. Bennett Delinquent & Neurotic Children v. 181 Difficulties in habit-training may be expected in both delinquent and neurotic children. Both types..are likely to express early difficulties in the form of sleep disturbances, feeding disturbances, or disturbances in bladder or bowel control. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). habitadj. Forms: Also 1700s habite. Etymology: < Latin habitus, past participle of habēre to have, hold.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhabit. Scots Law. a. Held, holden: in the legal phrase habit and repute n. representing a medieval Latin habitus et reputatus, in earlier times translated halden and repute (or reputit), i.e. held and reputed (to be so and so). ΚΠ 1503 Sc. Acts Jas. IV c. 23 Þe woman..beand repute & haldin as his lachtfull wif. 1551–2 Eccles. Scot. Statuta 135 Quæ talium baptizatorum parentes communiter habentur et reputantur. 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. (1693) iv. xlv. §4 704 In the serving of..terces of relicts, ‘commonly holden and repute’ is sufficient.] 1753 Scots Mag. Sept. 469/1 As habite and repute a common..thief. 1773 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. I. i. 86 It is presumed or inferred from cohabitation..joined to their being habite, or held, and reputed, man and wife. 1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) (at cited word) If the person..be habit and repute a thief—i.e. one who notoriously makes or helps his livelihood by thieving. 1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) at Execution It is sufficient..that the person..shall have been at the time habit and repute qualified. b. The phrase habit and repute is also used quasi-subst. for: The fact of being commonly held and reputed (what is indicated by the context). ΚΠ 1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. i. vi. 63 Sufficient presumptive evidence of marriage, without the aid, either of cohabitation or of habite and repute. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. (at cited word) Thus marriage may be constituted by habit and repute..So also habit and repute is an aggravation of a special act of theft. [By a recent Act, habit and repute is no longer made matter of charge in the libel.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). habitv. Brit. /ˈhabɪt/, U.S. /ˈhæbət/ Etymology: < French habite-r to have dealings with, possess, cohabit, dwell, inhabit, < Latin habitāre to have possession of, inhabit, dwell, abide, < habit- , participial stem of habēre : see habit adj. †1. intransitive. To dwell, abide, reside, sojourn. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] wonc725 erdec893 siteOE liveeOE to make one's woningc960 through-wonOE bigc1175 walkc1225 inwonea1300 lenda1300 lenga1300 lingera1300 erthec1300 stallc1315 lasta1325 lodge1362 habit?a1366 breeda1375 inhabitc1374 indwella1382 to have one's mansionc1385 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 keepc1400 repairc1400 to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 winc1425 to make (one's) residence1433 resort1453 abidec1475 use1488 remaina1500 demur1523 to keep one's house1523 occupy1523 reside1523 enerdc1540 kennel1552 bower1596 to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597 subsist1618 mansiona1638 tenant1650 fastena1657 hospitate1681 wont1692 stay1754 to hang out1811 home1832 habitate1866 ?a1366 Romaunt Rose 660 That in her swete song delyten In thilke places as they habyten. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton A viij b Many men habyten and dwellyn by fayth in the cytees. a1592 R. Greene Comicall Hist. Alphonsus (1599) i. sig. A3^v Although he habit on the earth. 1649 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Use of Passions 36 Contraries cannot lodge or habit together. 2. transitive. To dwell in, inhabit. archaic. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (transitive)] wonOE erdeOE inwonea1300 inhabitc1374 indwell1382 occupya1387 biga1400 endwellc1420 possessc1450 purprise1481 people1490 dwell1520 accompany?c1525 replenishc1540 populate1578 habit1580 inhabitate1600 tenant1635 improvec1650 manure1698 1580 R. Hayward & G. Barne Commission 20 May in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 457 Some other towne or place, habited vpon or neere the border of it. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 48 The shore of the Æthyopian Ocean, which now is habited. 1847 D. G. Mitchell Fresh Gleanings (1851) 250 Hinzelmann who once habited an old castle. 1891 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Prisoners & Captives III. xi. 185 Unless they had habited different parts of the globe. 3. To dress, clothe, attire. (Usually in past participle) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] wrya901 clothec950 shride971 aturnc1220 begoa1225 array1297 graith1297 agraithc1300 geara1325 cleadc1325 adightc1330 apparel1362 back1362 shape1362 attirea1375 parela1375 tirea1375 rayc1390 addressa1393 coverc1394 aguisea1400 scredea1400 shrouda1400 bedightc1400 buskc1400 harnessc1400 hatterc1400 revesta1449 able1449 dressa1450 reparel?c1450 adub?1473 endue?a1475 afaite1484 revestera1500 beclothe1509 trimc1516 riga1535 invest1540 vesture1555 suit1577 clad1579 investure1582 vest1582 deck1587 habit1594 to make ready1596 caparison1597 skin1601 shadow1608 garment1614 riga1625 raiment1656 garb1673 equip1695 to fit out1722 encase1725 tog1793 trick1821 to fig out1825 enclothe1832 toilet1842 to get up1858 habilitate1885 tailor1885 kit1919 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 57 Or is it Dian habited like her. View more context for this quotation 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. vi. 45 They went proudly habited. 1697 S. Patrick Comm. Exod. (xxix. 8) 575 The High Priest was first habited, and then his Sons. 1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Antiq. Jews xviii. iii, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 575 He habited a great number of soldiers in their habit. 1866 Mrs. H. Wood St. Martin's Eve xxiv To habit herself as she deemed suitable for her journey. 1889 D. C. Murray & H. Murray Dangerous Catspaw 55 A group of girls, habited in white flannel. figurative.a1639 T. Dekker et al. Witch of Edmonton (1658) ii. ii. 22 Thy liking is the glass by which I'll habit my behaviour.1654 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra viii. 16 Good matter well habited. †4. a. To accustom, familiarize, habituate; past participle accustomed, practised, used (to or in). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > accustom (a person) weanc960 wonc1175 to teach to1297 usec1300 usec1405 accustom1422 wontc1440 custom?c1450 enure1489 inure1489 induce1490 habituate1530 ure1530 usage1530 trade1539 to trade up1556 exercise1558 flesh1591 habit?1615 habitate1621 occasion1684 usen1715 usen1861 ethize1876 ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) v. (R.) O y'are a shrewd one; and so habited In taking heed. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Lanc. 112 He was so habited to poisons, they became food unto him. 1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 183 A generation of men,..That are so habited in falshood. 1782 T. Paine Let. to Abbe Raynal (1791) 63 A mind habited to meanness and injustice. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xx. 11 Habited in crimes. †b. To turn into a habit, render habitual. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > render (a thing) habitual custom1392 habituate1614 habit1660 divulge1667 habitualizea1774 1660 T. Fuller Mixt Contempl. i. xl. 64 Customary sins, habited in us by practise and presumption. 1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 321 When Vices habit themselves into custome and manners. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1225adj.1753v.?a1366
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