habitude

From Middle English, from Middle French habitude, from Latin habitūdō (“condition, plight, habit, appearance”), from habeō (“I have, hold, keep”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhæbɪˌtjuːd/
• Rhymes: -uːd

habitude (countable and uncountable, plural habitudes)

1. (archaic) The essential character of one's being or existence; native or normal constitution; mental or moral constitution; bodily condition; native temperament.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint (114)

     His real habitude gave life and grace To appertainings and to ornament.

2. (archaic) Habitual disposition; normal or characteristic mode of behaviour, whether from habit or from nature
   • 1683, John Dryden, Life of Plutarch (21)

     An habitude of commanding his passions in order to his health.

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

     […] there was something of the habitude of the wild animal in the unreflecting instinct with which she rambled on — disconnecting herself by littles from her eventful past at every step, obliterating her identity […]

3. (obsolete) Behaviour or manner of existence in relation to something else; relation; respect.
   • 1732, George Berkeley, Alciphron (4.21)

     Proportion ... signifies the habitude or relation of one quantity to another.

4. (obsolete) In full habitude: fully, wholly, entirely; in all respects.
   • 1661, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England (1.165)

     Although I believe not the report in full habitude.

5. (obsolete) habitual association; familiar relation; acquaintance; familiarity; intimacy; association; intercourse.
   • 1665, John Evelyn, Memoirs (3.65)

     The discourse of some with whom I have had some habitudes since my coming home.

6. (obsolete) an associate; an acquaintance; someone with whom one is familiar.
   • 1676, George Etherege, The Man of Mode (4.1)

     La Corneus and Sallyes were the only habitudes we had.

7. Habit; custom; usage.
   • 1599, James I of England, Basilikon Doron (28)

     Which ... by long habitude, are thought rather vertue than vice among them.

8. (obsolete) A chemical term used in the plural to denote the various ways in which one substance reacts with another; chemical reaction.
   • 1818, Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics (32)

     Most authors who have had occasion to describe naphthaline, have noticed its habitudes with sulphuric acid.

• “habitude” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

From Latin habitūdō

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /a.bi.tyd/

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habitude f (plural habitudes)

1. habit (action done on a regular basis)

• avoir habitude
• d'habitude
• par habitude

• “habitude” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

habitude (plural habitudes)

1. habit (action done on a regular basis)

First known attestation 1365[1], borrowed from Latin habitūdō. The meaning 'habit' seems to have developed under the influence of habituer (“to habituate” reflexively “to become habituated”).

habitude f (plural habitudes)

1. relationship
2. habit (action done on a regular basis)