Definition of "habituate" in 英语

verb

1. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.

   • 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises, Paris, “The First Treatise declaring the nature and operations of bodies,” Chapter 36, p. 311, […] 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, Men are usually first corrupted by bad counsel and company […] ; next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices […]

2. (obsolete) To settle as an inhabitant.