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Addict
ADDICT', a. Addicted. [Not much used.]
ADDICT', v.t. [L. addico, to devote, from ad and dico, to dedicate.]
To apply one's self habitually; to devote time and attention by customary or constant practice; sometimes in a good sense.
They have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints. 1 Cor 15.
More usually, in a bad sense, to follow customarily, or devote, by habitually practicing that which is ill; as, a man is addicted to intemperance.
To addict one's self to a person, a sense borrowed from the Romans, who used the word for assigning debtors in service to their creditors, is found in Ben Jonson, but is not legitimate in English.
addict appears in definitions for these words:
Addict Addictedness Addiction Bibacious Bookishly Bookishness Bookworm Censorious Curious Devote Devoted Devotedness Devoting Egotistic Even-tide Expensiveness Factious Gamester Give Glass-gazing Grogdrinker Heathen Horemaster Inquisitive Intemperate Intriguing Lecher Lecherous Lewd Lightfingered Lonely Meditative Pharisaicical Pulverulent Rake Rapacity Studiousness Superstitionist Superstitious Theurgist Thievish Unaddicted Unbookish Venereal Vicious Viciousness Voluptuary Voluptuousness Votary Whorish Wicked Worldliness
Addict Addictedness Addiction Bibacious Bookishly Bookishness Bookworm Censorious Curious Devote Devoted Devotedness Devoting Egotistic Even-tide Expensiveness Factious Gamester Give Glass-gazing Grogdrinker Heathen Horemaster Inquisitive Intemperate Intriguing Lecher Lecherous Lewd Lightfingered Lonely Meditative Pharisaicical Pulverulent Rake Rapacity Studiousness Superstitionist Superstitious Theurgist Thievish Unaddicted Unbookish Venereal Vicious Viciousness Voluptuary Voluptuousness Votary Whorish Wicked Worldliness
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