habituate

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: ha=bit=u=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

habituate, v. t. [L. habituatus, p. p. of habituare to bring into a condition or habit of body: cf. F. habituer. See Habit.].

•  To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.  [1913 Webster]

  "Our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime."  [1913 Webster]

  "Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices."  [1913 Webster]
•  To settle as an inhabitant.  Sir W. Temple.  [1913 Webster]

habituate, a. 

 Firmly established by custom; formed by habit; habitual.  Hammond.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

habituate, v.tr. (often foll. by to) accustom; make used to something.

Derivative

habituation n.

Etymology

LL habituare (as HABIT)

THESAURUS

habituate

acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, adapt, addict, adjust, bear, break, break in, case harden, condition, confirm, domesticate, domesticize, endure, establish, familiarize, fix, gentle, harden, housebreak, inure, naturalize, orient, orientate, season, support, take to, tame, tolerate, train, use, wont

ROGET THESAURUS

habituate

Habit

VB be wont, fall into a rut, fall into a custom, tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten, stare super antiquas vias, move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way, habituate, inure, harden, season, caseharden, accustom, familiarize, naturalize, acclimatize, keep one's hand in, train, get into the way, get into the knack of, learn, cling to, adhere to, repeat, acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick, addict oneself to, take to, get into, be habitual, prevail, come into use, become a habit, take root, gain upon one, grow upon one.

Teaching

VB teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor, cram, prime, coach, enlighten, inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix, ingraft, infiltrate, imbue, impregnate, implant, graft, sow the seeds of, disseminate, given an idea of, put up to, put in the way of, set right, sharpen the wits, enlarge the mind, give new ideas, open the eyes, bring forward, teach the young idea how to shoot, improve, expound, lecture, read a lesson, give a lesson, give a lecture, give a sermon, give a discourse, incept, hold forth, preach, sermonize, moralize, point a moral, train, discipline, bring up, bring up to, form, ground, prepare, qualify, drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand, break, break in, tame, preinstruct, initiate, inure, put to nurse, send to school, direct, guide, direct attention to, impress upon the mind, impress upon the memory, beat into, beat into the head, convince, book, workbook, exercise book, preach to the wise, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, teach granny to suck eggs, preach to the converted.