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adjective

Habitual adj.

Formed or acquired by habit or use. "An habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims."

According to habit; established by habit; customary; constant; as, the habitual practice of sin. "It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to be grateful for the most common and ordinary blessings."

Synonyms: Customary; accustomed; usual; common; wonted; ordinary; regular; familiar.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Habitual" Quotes from Famous Books

... to recapitulate the sum of our conclusions regarding Happiness. It is not a habit, but lies in the habitual activities—desirable in and for themselves not as means—exercised deliberately, excluding mere amusement. Man's highest faculty being intelligence, its activity is his highest happiness—contemplation—constant, sufficient, and sought not as a ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various

... establishment of friendly relations to bestow his own confidence in return. It is thought that the expression is merely the development of certain features designed by nature. For my own part I think that over and above this development a man's face is shaped, all unconsciously, by the frequent and habitual influence of certain affections of the heart. These affections are shown on the face, there is nothing more certain; and when they become habitual, they must surely leave lasting traces. This is ...

— Emile • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

... door unclosed? Is there another human being in the room? We have now become so accustomed to the dim medium that we distinguish a man of mean exterior, with a look of habitual subservience that seems like that of an English serving-man, or a person in some menial situation; decent, quiet, neat, softly-behaved, but yet with a certain hard and questionable presence, which we would not well like to have near us in ...

— Doctor Grimshawe's Secret - A Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... love of the Bible, and was so constant a reader of it that his friends reproached him for wasting his time over it. Burke owned his indebtedness to the Bible for his unique eloquence. Webster confessed that he owed to its habitual reading much of his power. Ruskin looks back to the days when a pious aunt compelled him to learn by heart whole chapters of the Bible, for his schooling in the craft of speech, in which he stands unrivaled ...

— The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible • R. Heber Newton

... Christian religion were kept back because, having been accustomed to celebrate the feasts connected with idols in revelling and drunkenness, they could not easily refrain from these pleasures so hurtful and so habitual; and it seemed good to our ancestors that for a time a concession should be made to this infirmity, that after they had renounced the former festivals they might celebrate other feasts, in honor of the holy martyrs, which were observed, not with ...

— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.

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