Category:Habitude

Hab"i*tude, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. habitudo condition. See Habit.]

1. Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations. South. The same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to another. Locke. The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else than habitudes of thinking. Landor.

2. Habitual association, intercourse, or familiarity. To write well, one must have frequent habitudes with the best company. Dryden.

3. Habit of body or of action. Shak. It is impossible to gain an exact habitude without an infinite Dryden.