Verb (used with object) : Wealth habituated him to luxury. From Dictionary.com.
They had (and Conrad Aveling confirmed all this enthusiastically) themselves 'habituated' two of the gorilla groups for human contact. From Wordnik.com. [Last Chance to See]
Offenders, beyond a certain point, have to be (as the Americans used to say) "habituated". From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
After a while the babies stopped looking for so long in the direction of the face and music - they "habituated" to it. From Wordnik.com. [Clipmarks | Live Clips] Reference
This really is wilderness, and the wildlife is really wild, not "habituated" like animals in the most popular reserves. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The French blame the US for the death of their craft cheese makers because we, somehow, "habituated" them to pasteurization?. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
Visitors are also routinely warned not to feed animals in the park as that can contribute to them becoming "habituated" or comfortable with humans. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking News: CBS News] Reference
"habituated" to their human observers or are isolated from other communities. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American] Reference
But she was habituated to a high altitude of thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
I gradually became habituated to the custom, and did not notice it. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
He habituated me to compare Lucretius, (in such extracts as I then read,). From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
I want the plainest, simplest, most ordinary, habituated routine possible. From Wordnik.com. [An Actress Moves On, Or Tries To] Reference
The country, habituated to an absence of parliaments, might have come to accept. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
The Sardes being habituated by residence for a while, and the transaction of business, on. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
For years she had been habituated to look forward to it as one of the eventualities of her life. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
The system, however, gradually becomes habituated to its action, and these symptoms do not reappear. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Where individuals are habituated to one single tradition or set of customs, such questions may not arise. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
You may be surprised by how much less food you really need and how enlightening it is to alter a habituated pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Jeffrey Hull, Ph.D.: 6 Ways to Do Nothing in a Wired World] Reference
It's a nominal thing, you see, and he has become so habituated to it that I am inclined to the belief that he prefers it. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Again, the compass downward needs to be more restricted at first than after the children have become habituated to its use. From Wordnik.com. [The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs] Reference
Hers was a nature too active, too habituated to the British virtue of self-control to submit to the languor of vain emotions. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
So habituated then have we become to rapid change in the conditions of life that the first thing we postulate is further change. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
Then, in the course of 10 sessions spanning five weeks, the soldier will relive it again and again, until he is habituated to it. From Wordnik.com. [A Virtual Iraq] Reference
They become habituated to their own quarters, as do the others, and all are better for being, respectively, in their proper places. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
By the time the Khmer Rouge was driven from the area in the spring of 1998, the villagers had become habituated to their isolation. From Wordnik.com. [A GLOBAL GAP] Reference
For so habituated were the dancers to their fascinating exercise, that they were always ready to go at the word, like trained horses. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
Sympathy is a specialization of man's general gregariousness, and becomes more specialized as one becomes habituated exclusively to a small group. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Sunday, and so habituated had I become to this practice that I was rather surprised when my friend, Ward, said to me: 'Now, I'll see you on Monday morning. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Road] Reference
Many were the times we, and all well-habituated travellers in France, had swung from Calais to Paris by train, with little thought indeed as to what lay between. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
January following, the time of meeting of the Assembly arrived, the country, habituated as it was to violent methods, was startled by the succeeding occurrences. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
I will even offer to be his instructor, a practice to which I have become habituated in the leisure of these days while bringing my own boy, the younger Cicero, on. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
Lady Mary were too habituated to the accidents of the hunting-field to feel that nervous terror at witnessing a fall that people not so accustomed are apt to experience. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
Each moment he found himself checked and repulsed in the new path he fain would have trodden by the wretched mechanical tricks to which he had so long habituated himself. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Girls should be educated to wear clothing suitable to the time and place, and then their "habituated instincts" will lead them to demand and wear shoes of proper thickness. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
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