assuetude

See also: assuétude

English

Etymology

From Latin assuetudo, from assuetus (“accustomed”).

Noun

assuetude (countable and uncountable, plural assuetudes)

  1. (archaic) Accustomedness; habit.
    • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
      Assuetude of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt.
  2. The condition of an organism that has acquired tolerance of a drug or poison.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “assuetude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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