Habituate

Quick meaning: Habituate is a verb meaning To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.

Meaning

To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) To settle as an inhabitant.

Example Sentences

My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.

[…] quarrels in discotheques were settled by the final curse-word of guns. State violence under the old, past regime had habituated its victims to it. People had forgotten there was any other way.

1694, John Tillotson, Sermon 2, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, London: B. Aylmer, 1696, p. 35, Men are usually first corrupted by bad counsel and company […] ; next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices […]

1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises, Paris, “The First Treatise declaring the nature and operations of bodies,” Chapter 36, p. 311, […] it was the custome of our English doggs (who were habituated vnto a colder clyme) to runne into the sea in the heate of summer […]

Word Forms

• habituates
• habituating
• habituated

Synonyms for habituate

Depending on context, synonyms include accustom, inure.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include accustom, inure, enure, habitualize, custom, acquaint.

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