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Word Meanings - HABITUDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations. South. The same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to another. Locke. The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else

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1. Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations. South. The same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to another. Locke. The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else than habitudes of thinking. Landor. 2. Habitual association, intercourse, or familiarity. To write well, one must have frequent habitudes with the best company. Dryden. 3. Habit of body or of action. Shak. It is impossible to gain an exact habitude without an infinite Dryden.

Related words: (words related to HABITUDE)

  • SOUTHSAY
    See SOOTHSAY
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • SOUTHWESTERLY
    To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • ACCUSTOMARILY
    Customarily.
  • RELATIONSHIP
    The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • NOTHINGNESS
    1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
  • ACCUSTOMEDNESS
    Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • SOUTHERNLINESS
    Southerliness.
  • SOUTHREN
    Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • LOCKER
    1. One who, or that which, locks. 2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock. Chain locker , a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. -- Davy Jones's locker, or
  • STATE SOCIALISM
    A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • SOUTHSAYER
    See SOOTHSAYER
  • SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
    the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
  • LOCKET
    1. A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament. 2. A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • MONOTHALAMAN
    A foraminifer having but one chamber.
  • KATASTATE
    A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
  • MONOTHALMIC
    Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.
  • BAYOU STATE
    Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.

 

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