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Habited
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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noun
1.
an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary: the habit of looking both ways before crossing the street.
2.
customary practice or use: Daily bathing is an American habit.
3.
a particular practice, custom, or usage: the habit of shaking hands.
4.
a dominant or regular disposition or tendency; prevailing character or quality: She has a habit of looking at the bright side of things.
5.
EXPANDaddiction, especially to narcotics (often preceded by the).
6.
mental character or disposition: a habit of mind.
7.
characteristic bodily or physical condition.
8.
the characteristic form, aspect, mode of growth, etc., of an organism: a twining habit.
9.
the characteristic crystalline form of a mineral.
10.
garb of a particular rank, profession, religious order, etc.: a monk's habit.
11.
COLLAPSEthe attire worn by a rider of a saddle horse.
verb (used with object)
12.
to clothe; array.
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English < Latin habitus state, style, practice, equivalent to habi- (variant stem of habēre to have) + -tus verbal noun suffix; replacing Middle English abit < Old French
1175–1225; Middle English < Latin habitus state, style, practice, equivalent to habi- (variant stem of habēre to have) + -tus verbal noun suffix; replacing Middle English abit < Old French
verb (used with object)
1.
Archaic. to dwell in.
verb (used without object)
2.
Obsolete. to dwell.
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