habituate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  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 […]
  2. To settle as an inhabitant. obsolete
    — After the Conquests made by Caesar upon Gaul, and the nearer Parts of Germany […] great Numbers of Germans and Gauls resorted to the Roman Armies and to the City it self, and habituated themselves there, as many Spaniards, Syrians, Graecians had done before upon the Conquest of those Countries.

词形变化

habituates present,singular,third-person habituating participle,present habituated participle,past habituated past

词汇关系

衍生词
dishabituate habituative habituator nonhabituated unhabituate unhabituated
相关词
habit habitual habituation

词源

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).
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