habitual

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He is a low character, who is known as a habitual frequenter of the race track, and who at times does business as a poolseller and bookmaker.

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  1. adjective Of the nature of a habit: habitual lying.
  2. adjective Being such by force of habit: a habitual liar. See Synonyms at chronic.
  3. adjective Established by long use; usual: my habitual place. See Synonyms at usual.

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  • Indeed, so habitual was the forgetfulness of these ethical sensitives that Kant at length refused to take their letters in. —  Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles
  • For this we must make automatic and habitual, as soon as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we would guard against the plague The nervous system is a living phonograph, infinitely more marvelous than that of Edison. —  Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power
  • We need to attend least to these functions which are most habitual, and we have to attend most to those which are novel and only half acquired. —  The Story of the Mind
  • In these sensations, as they accumulate into a kind of habitual or unreasoned knowledge or opinion, he discovers elements which have been active to {152} correlate the sensations, which have from the first exercised a governing influence upon the sensations, without which, indeed, no two sensations could be brought together to form anything one could name. —  A Short History of Greek Philosophy
  • With them the transgression becomes habitual, and the stain on the character is deep and lasting. —  Plain Facts for Old and Young
 

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  1. from French habituel = Provencal Spanish Portuguese habitual = Italian abituale, from Middle Latin habitualis (pertaining to a habit or dress), from Latin habitus, habit: see habit, n. Cf. habituate.
 

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/həˈbɪtʃjuəl/
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