addict

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: ad=dict

CIDE DICTIONARY

addict, p. p. 

 Addicted; devoted.  [1913 Webster]

addict, v. t. [L. addictus, p. p. of addicere to adjudge, devote; ad + dicere to say. See Diction.].

•  To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to.  Evelyn.  [1913 Webster]

  "He is addicted to his study."  [1913 Webster]

  "That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations."  [1913 Webster]

  "His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity."  [1913 Webster]

  "A man gross . . . and addicted to low company."  [1913 Webster]
•  To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.  [1913 Webster]

  "The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Addict, Devote, Consecrate, Dedicate. Addict was formerly used in a good sense; as, addicted to letters; but is now mostly employed in a bad sense or an indifferent one; as, add

OXFORD DICTIONARY

addict, v. & n.
--v.tr. & refl. (usu. foll. by to) devote or apply habitually or compulsively; make addicted.
--n.
1 a person addicted to a habit, esp. one dependent on a (specified) drug (drug addict; heroin addict).
2 colloq. an enthusiastic devotee of a sport or pastime (film addict).

Etymology

L addicere assign (as AD-, dicere dict- say)

THESAURUS

addict

LSD user, acidhead, address, adherent, adjust, admirer, aficionado, alcoholic, apply, aspirant, aspirer, bias, buff, bug, candidate, chain smoker, cocaine sniffer, cokie, collector, coveter, cubehead, demon, desirer, devotee, dipsomaniac, direct, dispose, dope fiend, doper, drug abuser, drug addict, drug user, drunkard, eager beaver, energumen, enthusiast, faddist, fan, fanatic, fancier, fiend, follower, freak, glue sniffer, great one for, groupie, habitual, habitue, hankerer, head, heavy smoker, hobbyist, hopeful, hophead, hound, hype, incline, infatuate, junkie, lover, marijuana smoker, methhead, narcotics addict, nut, pillhead, pothead, predispose, pursuer, putterer, rhapsodist, snowbird, solicitant, speed freak, sucker for, suitor, supporter, take to, tripper, user, visionary, votary, wanter, wisher, yearner, zealot