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Habituate

verb
(past & past part. habituated; pres. part. habituating)
1.
Take or consume (regularly or habitually).  Synonym: use.
2.
Make psychologically or physically used (to something).  Synonym: accustom.






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"Habituate" Quotes from Famous Books



... fine arts. His attack on the Alexandrine was just, but, on the other hand, he wished to, and was only too successful in abolishing all versification: for it is to this that we must impute the incredible deficiency of our actors in getting by heart and delivering verse. Even yet they cannot habituate themselves to it. He was thus also indirectly the cause of the insipid affectation of nature of our Dramatic writers, which a general use of versification would, in some ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black



Words linked to "Habituate" :   alter, modify, ingest, consume, habituation, board, teach, take, habit, indurate, hook, have, tope, harden, drink, addict, inure, change, take in



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