Definition of "habitude" in английский

noun

1. (archaic) The essential character of one's being or existence; native or normal constitution; mental or moral constitution; bodily condition; native temperament.

2. (archaic) Habitual disposition; normal or characteristic mode of behaviour, whether from habit or from nature

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

3. (obsolete) Behaviour or manner of existence in relation to something else; relation; respect.

4. (obsolete) In full habitude: fully, wholly, entirely; in all respects.

5. (obsolete) habitual association; familiar relation; acquaintance; familiarity; intimacy; association; intercourse.

6. (obsolete) an associate; an acquaintance; someone with whom one is familiar.

   • La Corneus and Sallyes were the only habitudes we had.

7. Habit; custom; usage.

   • Which […] by long habitude, are thought rather vertue than vice among them.

8. (obsolete, chemistry, in the plural) The various ways in which one substance reacts with another; chemical reaction.

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