1617,Zacharias Ursinus, “Quest. 90. What is the Quickning of the New Man?”, in Henrie Parrie [i.e.,Henry Parry],David Pareus, transl.,The Svmme of Christian Religion, Deliuered Zacharias Vrsinvs in His Lectures vpon theCatechisme,[…] Translated into English[…], and Lately Conferred with the Last and Best Latine Edition[…], London: Imprinted by H. L. and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson,[…],→OCLC, 3rd part (Of Mans Thankefulnes), section 4 (What are the Causes of Conuersion),page861:
Thomas Aquinas attributeth preparation vnto free-vvill, but not conuerſion. Now this preparation hee thus coloureth, that it is indeeda furtherance to thehabituall grace ofcõuersion, but yet through the free aſsiſtance of God mouing vs inwardly.
I vvas baptized in thyCordiall vvater, againſtOriginal ſinne, and I haue drunke of thyCordiall Blood, for my recouerie, from actuall, andhabituall ſinne, in the otherSacrament.
1655,Rich[ard] Baxter, “Sect. III. The Testimony of Reformed Divines Ascribing as Much to Works as I: And Many of Them Delivering the Same Doctrine.”, inRich[ard] Baxter’s Confesssion[sic] of His Faith, Especially Concerning the Interest of Repentance and Sincere Obedience to Christ, in Our Justification & Salvation.[…], London: Printed by R[obert] W[hite] for Tho[mas] Underhil and Fra[ncis] Tyton,[…],→OCLC,page421:
There is an actual Grace removing the Power of ſin, beforehabitual or ſanctifying Grace, the[Holy] Spirit doing it immediately by an omnipotent act, by that which is called actuating moving Grace;Chriſt can and muſt firſt bind the ſtrong man and caſt him out by this working or actual Grace, before he dwels in the houſe of mans heart byhabitual and ſanctifying Grace: [...]
1703, Michael Etmullerus [i.e.,Michael Ettmüller], “Sect. XIV. Of Diseases Relating to the Lungs and Organs of Respiration.”, inEtmullerus Abridg’d: Or, A Compleat System of the Theory and Practice of Physic.[…] Translated from the Last Edition of the Works[…], 2nd corrected and much improved edition, London: Printed for Andrew Bell[…], and Richard Wellington,[…],→OCLC, 1st book, chapter II (Of Inspiration Deprav’d, or Difficult Breathing), article III (Of the Night Mare),page144:
The Night-Mare is either Accidental orHabitual. [...] TheHabitual is occaſioned by ſome Acid Lymph that diſorders the Spirits and Creates a Paralytic or Convulſive Diſpoſition of the Nerves of the Middriff and Muſcles of the Breast; which by conſent Cramp thoſe of the Wind-Pipe, whoſe Contraction raiſes a ſenſe of ſtrangling, and aboliſhes the power of an Articulate Voice.
1774,W[illiam] Mason,An Affectionate Address to Passionate Professors: Shewing the Blessedness of a Meek and Quiet Spirit: The Evil of Giving Way to Bad Tempers and Sinful Passions; And Pointing Out Some Remedies for Subduing Them, London: Printed for the author; and sold by M. Lewis,[…]; and J. Mathews,[…],→OCLC,page11:
But by a long andhabitual courſe of giving way to evil tempers, and indulging ſinful paſſions, a perſon may be ſo blinded thereby as not to ſee the evil thereof, and ſo hardened therein as not to feel the bad effects of them.
The nation, which indulges towards another anhabitual hatred, or anhabitual fondneſs, is in ſome degree a ſlave: it is a ſlave to its authority or its affection, either of which is ſufficient to lead it aſtray from its duty and its intereſt.
1820,John Crawfurd, “Domestic Ceremonies and Familiar Usages”, inHistory of the Indian Archipelago. Containing an Account of the Manners, Arts, Languages, Religions, Institutions, and Commerce of Its Inhabitants.[...] In Three Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed[by George Ramsay and Company] forArchibald Constable and Co.[…]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co.[…],→OCLC, book I (Character),page106:
Thehabitual use of opium is wholly unlike that of the gentler narcotics, tea, coffee, areca, and even tobacco, and is far more pernicious than that even of any description of fermented liquor.
Hurry had felt angered at his sufferings, when first liberated, it is true, but that emotion had soon disappeared in thehabitual love of gold, which he sought with the reckless avidity of a needy spendthrift, rather than with the ceaseless longings of a miser.
1997, Christine A. Wynd, “Smoking Cessation”, in Barbara Montgomery Dossey, editor,Core Curriculum for Holistic Nursing, Gaithersburg, Md.:Aspen Publishers,→ISBN,page220:
KNOWLEDGE COMPETENCIES [...] Explore the rationale behind an individual's smoking habit (nicotine addiction/dependence, psychosocial aspects, andhabitual cues).
Professor Franklein took hishabitual seat at the conference table.
1653,Thomas Shepard,The Sound Beleever. A Treatise of Evangelicall Conversion. Discovering the Work of Christs Spirit, in Reconciling of a Sinner to God, London: Printed forAndrew Crooke[…],→OCLC,page83:
Ourhearts are ſaidto be purified by faith;Acts 15. 9. not our lives onely in the acts of holineſſe and purity, but our heart in thehabituall frame of them.
1658,John Bramhall, “The Fourth and Fifth Reasons against This Improbable Fiction, from the No Necessity of It, and the Lesse Advantage of It”, inThe Consecration and Succession, of Protestant Bishops Justified.[…], Gravenhagh[The Hague]: By John Ramzey,→OCLC,page54:
Now he [Edmund Bonner] was deprived, and had no more to doe with the Bishoprick of London, then with the Bishoprick ofConſtantinople, he had thehabituall power of theKeies, but had no flock to exercise it upon.
There was hardly any creature in hishabitual world that he was not fond of; teasing them occasionally, of course—all except his uncle, or "Nunc," as Sir Hugo had taught him to say; [...]
1658,Thomas Hall, “[Chap. 3.] Verse 2. For men shall be lovers of themselves, Covetous, Boasters, Proud, Blasphemers, disobedient to Parents, unthankfull, unholy, &c.”, inA Practical and Polemical Commentary: Or, Exposition upon the Third and Fourth Chapters of the Latter Epistle of Saint Paul to Timothy.[…], London: Printed by E. Tyler, for John Starkey,[…],→OCLC,page[95]:
[N]o drunkard (i.e.) noHabituall, Impenitent drunkard, ſhall come into Gods Kingdome.
a.1806,William Paley,W[illiam] Hamilton Reid, “Conversion”, inBeauties Selected from the Writings of the Late William Paley, D.D. Archbishop of Carlisle:[…], London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones,[…], published1810,→OCLC,page123:
Thehabitual drunkard, thehabitual fornicator, thehabitual cheat must be converted. The breaking off a habit, especially when we had placed much of our gratification in it, is alone so great a thing, and such a step in our Christian life, as to merit the name of conversion.
Legree was not ahabitual drunkard. His coarse, strong nature craved, and could endure, a continual stimulation, that would have utterly wrecked and crazed a finer one. But a deep, underlying spirit of cautiousness prevented his often yielding to appetite in such measure as to lose control of himself.
1922 July, “Quotations: Defectives, Criminals, and Misdemeanants”, in J. Harold Williams, editor,The Journal of Delinquency, volume VII, number 4, Whittier, Calif.: California Bureau of Juvenile Research,Whittier State School,→OCLC,page194:
That the hospitals for the insane be designated as the proper places for the custody, care, and treatment of constitutionally unstable offenders, whether occasional orhabitual offenders, and whether feeble-minded, or non-feeble-minded, [...]
2002, Jose Antonio, Jeffrey R. Stout, “Caffeine and Ephedrine”, inSupplements for Endurance Athletes, Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics Publishers,→ISBN,page15:
In addition to the dose of caffeine, there are other items that athletes need to be aware of before utilizing caffeine or caffeine-containing products as an ergogenic aid.Habitual caffeine users may respond differently than naïve users [...]. Research indicates that inhabitual users, caffeine may increase fat breakdown, but this does not necessarily result in an increase in fat use for energy or an increase in catecholamines or performance.
While some novice entrepreneurs have no intention of becoming ahabitual entrepreneur, others do. [...] Accordingly, while 'pure' novice entrepreneurs represent the group of novice entrepreneurs that will remain one-time entrepreneurs, 'transient'; novice entrepreneurs will at least attempt to becomehabitual entrepreneurs.
1976,Bernard Comrie, “Perfective and Imperfective”, inAspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics; 2), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:Cambridge University Press, published1998,→ISBN, section 1.2.1.1 (Habitual and Other Aspectual Values),page30:
In English, for instance, theHabitual Aspect (used to construction) can combine freely with Progressive Aspect, to give such forms asused to be playing.
The majority of South Arawak, Pareci-Xingu, and Peruvian Arawak languages have a three-fold aspect distinction: completive (completed, perfective or telic action); progressive (action/state in progress; also a durative meaning); andhabitual.
(grammar) pertaining to an action performed customarily
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1870 January 20, G. Hutchinson, “XXIV. The Present State of the Prison Question in British India.”, inTwenty-fifth Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the Prison Association of New York, and Accompanying Documents, for the Year 1869.[…] (New York State Senate;1870, no. 21), Albany, N.Y.: The Argus Company, printers,→OCLC,page433:
It has been suggested that we should classify prisoners as casuals andhabituals. If a casual is to be distinguished from anhabitual simply by the length of his sentence, this classification would hardly answer.
1997, John Pratt, “Dangerousness: The Birth of a Concept”, inGoverning the Dangerous: Dangerousness, Law and Social Change, Leichhardt, N.S.W.: The Federation Press,→ISBN,page31:
However, in an era when legal punishment was dominated by principles of classical justice and Victorian political economy, what else could one do with thehabituals other than provide for an accumulation of prison sentences: the more repeated one's crime, the longer one might be sentenced to imprisonment.
Habituals, generally speaking, are the people who might in the context of college admissions be referred to as "legacies." These are people who choose to go into finance either because their parents or siblings work in finance, or because they've grown up with financiers in their immediate social circle. Strictly speaking, mostHabituals make it to Wall Street on their own, but their upbringings (in wealthy or upper-middle-class communities) and their educational opportunities (at private high schools and top-tier colleges) have made finance a destination that, if not inevitable, is at least a known and respected option for people in their circumstances.
1976,Bernard Comrie, “Perfective and Imperfective”, inAspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics; 2), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:Cambridge University Press, published1998,→ISBN, section 1.2.1.1 (Habitual and Other Aspectual Values),page30:
Since any situation that can be protracted sufficiently in time, or that can be iterated a sufficient number of times over a long enough period – and this means, in effect, almost any situation – can be expressed as ahabitual, it follows that habituality is in principle combinable with various other aspectual values, namely those appropriate to the kind of situation that is prolonged or iterated.
Indeed,[Thomas] Givón (1994: 323) suggests thehabitual is a 'hybrid modality', sharing some features of realis (higher assertive certainty) and some of irrealis ('lack of specific temporal reference; lack of specific evidence; …').
2004, Elly van Gelderen, “Aspect: The Tense Aspect Parameter and Inner to Outer Aspect”, inGrammaticalization as Economy (Linguistik Aktuell = Linguistics Today;71), Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa.:John Benjamins Publishing Company,→ISBN,→ISSN, section 5 (Giorgi & Pianesi: The Demise of the Infinitival Ending and Aspect),page221:
Stative verbs such asknow andsee are not associated with [+perf] since, likehabituals, they are associated with a generic operator.
As an expression of the iterativehabitual suffixal-s is by no means recent. It is found in emigrant letters from the early nineteenth century. [...] O'Hara's uses as an inflected first person singular as an iterativehabitual, e.g.I hopes the [ ]family are well …, I hopes you will except [sic!] my thanks for the same … (Kean O'Hara, 1818–19). This usage is still to be found in east coast varieties of Irish English.
2007, Howard Jackson, “Grammar: Morphology and Syntax”, inKey Terms in Linguistics, London; New York, N.Y.:Continuum,→ISBN,page23:
For example, repeated occurrence (iteratives or ‘habituals’) in English may be signalled byrepeatedly orseveral times (‘He shoutedrepeatedly’), or it may be part of the meaning of the verb (‘The birdfluttered its wings’).
, Oxford:Oxford University Press,1898;“habitual,adj.”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.