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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Habitual \Ha*bit"ual\ (h[.a]*b[i^]t"[-u]*al; 135), adjective [Cf. F. habituel, LL. habitualis. See {Habit}, noun]
1. Formed or acquired by habit or use.
An habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims. --South.
2. 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. --Buckminster.
Syn: Customary; accustomed; usual; common; wonted; ordinary; regular; familiar. -- {Ha*bit"u*al*ly}, adverb -- {Ha*bit"u*al*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
habitual
adjective
1: made a norm or custom or habit; "his habitual practice was to eat an early supper"; "her habitual neatness"
2: commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor" [syn: {accustomed}, {customary}, {wonted(a)}]
3: having a habit of long standing; "a chronic smoker" [syn: {chronic}, {confirmed}, {inveterate(a)}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "habitual": accepted, accustomed, addicted, arranged, automatic, average, beaten, businesslike, chronic, common, commonplace, confirmed, constant, continual, conventional, current, customary, established, everyday, familiar, fixed, formal, frequent, frequentative, habituated, hackneyed, hardened, harmonious, household, in hand, ingrained, instinctive, inveterate, involuntary, many, many times, methodical, natural, normal, normative, not rare, of common occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, ordered, orderly, ordinary, perpetual, persistent, popular, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, recurrent, recurring, regular, regulation, repetitive, ritual, rooted, routine, set, settled, standard, steady, stereotyped, stock, symmetrical, systematic, thick-coming, traditional, trite, uniform, universal, usual, vernacular, well-ordered, well-regulated, well-trodden, well-worn, wonted
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