habituate

== English == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle English habituat(e) (“physically established or present”), borrowed from Late Latin habituātus, perfect passive participle of habituō (“to bring into a condition or habit of body”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /həˈbɪtju.eɪt/, /həˈbɪt͡ʃu.eɪt/ === Verb === habituate (third-person singular simple present habituates, present participle habituating, simple past and past participle habituated) To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. Synonyms: accustom, inure 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises, Paris, “The First Treatise declaring the nature and operations of bodies,” Chapter 36, p. 311,[1] […] it was the custome of our English doggs (who were habituated vnto a colder clyme) to runne into the sea in the heate of summer […] 1694, John Tillotson, Sermon 2, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, London: B. Aylmer, 1696, p. 35,[2] Men are usually first corrupted by bad counsel and company […] ; next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices […] (obsolete) To settle as an inhabitant. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== habit habitual habituation ==== Translations ==== == Spanish == === Verb === habituate second-person singular voseo imperative of habituar combined with te