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Habit

noun

An established custom. Synonym: wont.

(psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition. Synonym: use. "She had a habit twirling the ends of her hair" , "Long use had hardened him to it"

A distinctive attire worn by a member of a religious order.

The general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal).

Attire that is typically worn by a horseback rider (especially a woman's attire). Synonym: riding habit.

Excessive use of drugs. Synonyms: drug abuse, substance abuse.

verb

(past & past part. habited; pres. part. habiting)

Put a habit on.

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"Habit" Quotes from Famous Books

... disobey them. Bagaeus, being thus received and recognized as the envoy of the king, continued to present new decrees and edicts, from time to time, as occasions occurred in which he thought the guards would be ready to obey them, until he found the habit, on their part, of looking to him as the representative of the supreme power sufficiently established; for their disposition to obey him was not merely tested, it was strengthened by every new act of obedience. When he found, at length, that his hold upon ...

— Darius the Great - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... slowly, with his head inclined a little to one side, which was a habit he had acquired from the eternal listening into the hard rubber receivers. He had proceeded in this fashion a number of steps up one of the narrow, sloping sidewalks when he felt, rather than perceived, a pair of eyes fastened upon him ...

— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts

... skating in the winter. His house was not a gambling or drinking place, at least not avowedly so; but some rather questionable doings had taken place there, and the spot was one absolutely forbidden to the scholars of Dr. Leacraft's school. Nevertheless, some of the wilder spirits were in the habit of going there when they could do so without risk of discovery; and they also employed Rice to procure for them such articles as were tabooed and which they could not purchase for themselves. Lewis Flagg was one of his most constant customers, and he had gradually drawn ...

— Bessie Bradford's Prize • Joanna H. Mathews

... strange if it should turn out to be our dog who made so much trouble over your pocketbook," went on Harry's mother. "Sandy did have a bad habit of running off with things. We tried to break him of it. And, now that I recall it, he took one of my gloves when he leaped out ...

— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove • Laura Lee Hope

... I struck across the Mimente, and took a rugged path southward up a hillside covered with loose stones and tufts of heather. At the top, as is the habit of the country, the path disappeared; and I left my she-ass munching heather, and went forward alone to ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 1 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

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