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Habit
HAB'IT, n. [L. habitus, from habeo,to have to hold. See Have.]
1. Garb; dress; clothes or garments in general.
The scenes are old, the habits are the same,
We wore last year.
There are among the statues, several of Venus,
in different habits.
2. A coat worn by ladies over other garments.
3. State of any thing; implying some continuance or permanence; temperament or particular state of a body, formed by nature or induced by extraneous circumstances; as a costive or lax habit of body; a sanguine habit.
4. A disposition or condition of the mind or body acquired by custom or a frequent repetition of the same act. Habit is that which is held or retained, the effect of custom or frequent repetition. Hence we speak of good habits and bad habits.
Frequent drinking of spirits leads to a habit of intemperance. We should endeavor to correct evil habits by a change of practice. A great point in the education of children, is to prevent the formation of bad habits.
Habit of plants, the general form or appearance, or the conformity of plants of the same kind in structure and growth.
HAB'IT, v.t. To dress; to clothe; to array.
They habited themselves like rural deities.
HAB'IT, v.t. To dwell; to inhabit.
habit appears in definitions for these words:
Abbot Able Abode Acclimated Accustom Accustomable Accustomably Accustomance Accustomed Acquire Activity Addict Aloes Alterative Amend Ant-hill Anticachectic Antichachectic Antipathy Apoplectic Aquitanian Armor Assuetude Attainable Attire Beaver Bee-flower Bennet Besetting Bethlemite Biding Booley Botany Break Breakvow Bring Bury Cachectic Cacoethes Carmelin Category Celestins Censoriousness Change Chaperon Charact Chick-weed Church-attire Climax Coat Commonly Commorance Commutative Company Complexion Conchologist Condor Contemplative Contract Convert Coralline Cord Corroborate Costly Costume Cot Cottage Counsel Country Cow Cowl Crib Critic Crustalogy Curious Custom Customable Customarily Customariness Customary Debase Debauchee Debauchery Deceitfulness Degree Desuetude Devious Disaccustom Discipline Discontinue Discriminate Disguise Disguised Dishabil Dishabille Dishabit Dislike Dislodge Dislodged Dislodging Doghole Domestic Domesticate Domiciliate Dram-drinker Dress Drink Dropsy Drunkard Drunkenness Dutifulness Dwell Dwelling Dyscrasy Ebriosity Ecumenic Education Educational Element Emigrant Encamp Encamped Ephod Equip Exercise Faculty Familiarize Familiarized Fancifulness Find Flit Foolery Force Form Formality Freak Frequent Frequentation Garb Garrulity Gaudy Gear Gird Gownman Grace Gregarious Grimace Grow Habit Habitable Habitably Habitant Habitat Habitation Habited Habitual Habitually Habituate Habitude Harlotry Haunt Heaven Hectic Hermitage Hive Hole Home Homewards Hore Horedom House Houseless Humor Ichthyology Idle Ill-nature Ill-natured Imitation Immoral Impotence Inactive Inactivity Inattentive Inconsistent Increase Indolence Indolent Indolently Indulge Industrious Industriously Industry Inebriate Inefficacious Inertness Ingenerated Inhabit Inhabitable Inhabitancy Insensibly Intemperance Intemperate Introduce Inure Inurement Inuring Investment Inveteracy Inveterate Invincible Involution Itinerate Keep Knack Knavishness Laziness Lazy Left-handedness Leucophlegmacy Leucophlegmatic Likelihood Live Lodge Lodging Loneliness Looseness Loquaciousness Loss Manner Manse Mansion Mechanically Melancholy Mendacity Mimic Mimick Morancy Mourn Mourner Mourning Mutability Nationalize Natural Naturalize Naturally Neglect Negligence Negligent New Obliging Observing One Ornithologist Ornithology Owling Pavilion Pectoral Peer Pelisse Penitent Pertilence Pious Pitch Pledge Plethoric Plump Polypier Port Positiveness Possess Pot-companion Practice Practitioner Prayerless Prayerlessness Predicament Present Preservative Prolong Proper Provoke Quality Querulous Querulousness Radication Reform Relish Resemble Residence Rest Retirement Routine Ruin Sad Salutary Sanguin Sanguineness Scapulary Scatteringly Scatterling Schesis Scorbutic Scrofulous Season Seasoning Secrecy See Serious Set Settle Shilling Sickliness Sickly Silence Silent Situation Slothfulness Sloven Slovenliness Sluggard Sluggish Sluggishness Sober Soberminded Soberminedness Sobriety Sojourn Solitariness Sot Speed Spider Spirit Squinting Station Stillness Stoop Strabism Studiousness Subordination Succinct Sunflower Superinduction Surplice Tabernacle Taciturn Taciturnity Talkativeness Temperance Tenebrous Thew Thievishness Thorp Timidity Tipple Tippler Tippling Tossing Trade Transient Transition Traverse Trick Truth Ultimately Unaccustomed Unequally Unfixed Unhabituated Unhealthiness Unhealthy Unhouse Unhoused Unrighteousness Unseasoned Unthinkingness Unworshiping Urim Use Vagabond Vagrant Veracious Veracity Vesture Vice Vicious Viciousness Want Warm Watchful Whittle Womanish Wont Zoographer Zoography Zoology
Abbot Able Abode Acclimated Accustom Accustomable Accustomably Accustomance Accustomed Acquire Activity Addict Aloes Alterative Amend Ant-hill Anticachectic Antichachectic Antipathy Apoplectic Aquitanian Armor Assuetude Attainable Attire Beaver Bee-flower Bennet Besetting Bethlemite Biding Booley Botany Break Breakvow Bring Bury Cachectic Cacoethes Carmelin Category Celestins Censoriousness Change Chaperon Charact Chick-weed Church-attire Climax Coat Commonly Commorance Commutative Company Complexion Conchologist Condor Contemplative Contract Convert Coralline Cord Corroborate Costly Costume Cot Cottage Counsel Country Cow Cowl Crib Critic Crustalogy Curious Custom Customable Customarily Customariness Customary Debase Debauchee Debauchery Deceitfulness Degree Desuetude Devious Disaccustom Discipline Discontinue Discriminate Disguise Disguised Dishabil Dishabille Dishabit Dislike Dislodge Dislodged Dislodging Doghole Domestic Domesticate Domiciliate Dram-drinker Dress Drink Dropsy Drunkard Drunkenness Dutifulness Dwell Dwelling Dyscrasy Ebriosity Ecumenic Education Educational Element Emigrant Encamp Encamped Ephod Equip Exercise Faculty Familiarize Familiarized Fancifulness Find Flit Foolery Force Form Formality Freak Frequent Frequentation Garb Garrulity Gaudy Gear Gird Gownman Grace Gregarious Grimace Grow Habit Habitable Habitably Habitant Habitat Habitation Habited Habitual Habitually Habituate Habitude Harlotry Haunt Heaven Hectic Hermitage Hive Hole Home Homewards Hore Horedom House Houseless Humor Ichthyology Idle Ill-nature Ill-natured Imitation Immoral Impotence Inactive Inactivity Inattentive Inconsistent Increase Indolence Indolent Indolently Indulge Industrious Industriously Industry Inebriate Inefficacious Inertness Ingenerated Inhabit Inhabitable Inhabitancy Insensibly Intemperance Intemperate Introduce Inure Inurement Inuring Investment Inveteracy Inveterate Invincible Involution Itinerate Keep Knack Knavishness Laziness Lazy Left-handedness Leucophlegmacy Leucophlegmatic Likelihood Live Lodge Lodging Loneliness Looseness Loquaciousness Loss Manner Manse Mansion Mechanically Melancholy Mendacity Mimic Mimick Morancy Mourn Mourner Mourning Mutability Nationalize Natural Naturalize Naturally Neglect Negligence Negligent New Obliging Observing One Ornithologist Ornithology Owling Pavilion Pectoral Peer Pelisse Penitent Pertilence Pious Pitch Pledge Plethoric Plump Polypier Port Positiveness Possess Pot-companion Practice Practitioner Prayerless Prayerlessness Predicament Present Preservative Prolong Proper Provoke Quality Querulous Querulousness Radication Reform Relish Resemble Residence Rest Retirement Routine Ruin Sad Salutary Sanguin Sanguineness Scapulary Scatteringly Scatterling Schesis Scorbutic Scrofulous Season Seasoning Secrecy See Serious Set Settle Shilling Sickliness Sickly Silence Silent Situation Slothfulness Sloven Slovenliness Sluggard Sluggish Sluggishness Sober Soberminded Soberminedness Sobriety Sojourn Solitariness Sot Speed Spider Spirit Squinting Station Stillness Stoop Strabism Studiousness Subordination Succinct Sunflower Superinduction Surplice Tabernacle Taciturn Taciturnity Talkativeness Temperance Tenebrous Thew Thievishness Thorp Timidity Tipple Tippler Tippling Tossing Trade Transient Transition Traverse Trick Truth Ultimately Unaccustomed Unequally Unfixed Unhabituated Unhealthiness Unhealthy Unhouse Unhoused Unrighteousness Unseasoned Unthinkingness Unworshiping Urim Use Vagabond Vagrant Veracious Veracity Vesture Vice Vicious Viciousness Want Warm Watchful Whittle Womanish Wont Zoographer Zoography Zoology
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