Results for habitude

Definitions of habitude:

part of speech: noun

Tendency from acquiring a habit: usual manner.

part of speech: noun

State with regard to something else; long custom.

part of speech: noun

Customary manner or mode; familiarity; as, one who mingles with good company will acquire the habitude of correct speech.

Usage examples for habitude:

• O for boyhood's painless play, Sleep that wakes in laughing day, Health that mocks the doctor's rules, Knowledge never learned of schools, Of the wild bee's morning chase, Of the wild flower's time and place, Flight of fowl and habitude Of the tenants of the wood; How the tortoise bears his shell, How the woodchuck digs his cell, And the ground- mole sinks his well; How the robin feeds her young, How the oriole's nest is hung; Where the whitest lilies blow, Where the freshest berries blow, Where the ground- nut trails its vine, Where the wood- grape's clusters shine; Of the black wasp's cunning way, Mason of his walls of clay, And the architectural plans Of gray hornet artisans! "Journeys Through Bookland Volume Four", Charles H. Sylvester

• By his own desire, the piper had a chair and small table set for him behind and to the right of his chief, as he called him; there he ate with the family and guests, waited upon by Davy, part of whose business it was to hand him the pipes at the proper moment, whereupon he rose to his feet, for even he with all his experience and habitude was unable in a sitting posture to keep that stand of pipes full of wind, and raised such a storm of sound as made the windows tremble. "The Marquis of Lossie", George MacDonald