Habitude

/ˈhæbɪˌtjuːd/ · noun

Meaning

(archaic) The essential character of one's being or existence; native or normal constitution; mental or moral constitution; bodily condition; native temperament..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic) The essential character of one's being or existence; native or normal constitution; mental or moral constitution; bodily condition; native temperament.
2. (archaic) Habitual disposition; normal or characteristic mode of behaviour, whether from habit or from nature
3. (obsolete) Behaviour or manner of existence in relation to something else; relation; respect.
4. (obsolete) In full habitude: fully, wholly, entirely; in all respects.
5. (obsolete) habitual association; familiar relation; acquaintance; familiarity; intimacy; association; intercourse.
6. (obsolete) an associate; an acquaintance; someone with whom one is familiar.
7. Habit; custom; usage.
8. (obsolete, chemistry, in the plural) The various ways in which one substance reacts with another; chemical reaction.

Example Sentences

His real habitude gave life and grace / To appertainings and to ornament.

An habitude of commanding his passions in order to his health.

[I]ts thought, that, in the Seed are alvvaies potentially ſeuerall indiuiduating Qualities deriu'd from diuers of the neere Anceſtors, vvhich by the formatiue povver of the Parents may be expreſt in the Children, vvith reſpectiue habitude to either Sex; […]

[T]here was something of the habitude of the wild animal in the unreflecting instinct with which she rambled on — disconnecting herself by littles from her eventful past at every step, obliterating her identity […]

With the instinct of old habitude they fell to the oars, Barbara rowing the better and the stronger.

And although Proportion ſtrictly ſignifies the Habitude or Relation of one Quantity to another, yet, in a looſer and tranſlated Senſe, it hath been applied to ſignify every other Habitude; and conſequently the Term Analogy comes to ſignify all Similitude or Relations, or Habitudes vvhatſoever.

Although I believe not the report in full habitude.

The discourse of some with whom I have had some habitudes since my coming home.

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