Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (I) Individual Volition
Section I. Volition in General
1. Acts of Volition

613. Habit.

   NOUN:HABIT, habitude, habituation, assuetude [obs.], assuefaction [obs.]; wont; run, way; habitual attitude, habitual state of mind, habitual course.
  common -, general -, natural -, ordinary- -course, – run, – state- of things; matter of course; beaten -path, – track, – ground.
  cacoëthes; bad -, confirmed -, inveterate -, [See intrinsic]- habit; addictedness, addiction, trick.
  CUSTOM, use, usage, prescription, immemorial usage, practice; prevalence, observance; conventionalism, conventionality; mode, fashion, vogue; etiquette (gentility) [See Fashion]; order of the day, cry; conformity [See Conformity]; consuetude, dastur or dustoor [India].
  one’s old way, old school, veteris vestigia flammœ [L.]; laudator temporis acti [L.].
  RULE, standing order, precedent, routine; red tape, red-tapism; pipe clay; rut, groove.
  ADDICT, habitué, habitual [colloq.], frequenter, case [slang], hard case [slang], the limit [slang].
  INUREMENT; training (education) [See Teaching]; seasoning, hardening; radication; second nature, acclimatization; knack (skill) [See Skill].
   VERB:BE WONT &c. adj.
  fall into a custom (conform to) [See Conformity]; tread -, follow- the beaten -track, – path; stare super antiquas vias [L.]; move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog-trot way; get wound up in red tape.
  HABITUATE, inure, harden, season, caseharden; accustom, familiarize; naturalize, acclimatize; keep one’s hand in; train (educate) [See Teaching].
  get into the -way, – knack- of; learn [See Learning]; cling to, adhere to; repeat [See Repetition]; acquire -, contract -, fall into- a -habit, – trick; addict oneself to, take to, accustom oneself to.
  BE HABITUAL &c. adj.; prevail; come into use, become a habit, take root; gain upon one, grow upon one.
   ADJECTIVE:HABITUAL; accustomary, customary; prescriptive; accustomed &c. v.; of -daily, – everyday- occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, every day, household, jog-trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood.
  CONFORMABLE [See Conformity]; according to -use, – custom, – routine; in vogue, in fashion; fashionable (genteel) [See Fashion].
  WONT; used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated to &c. v.; in the habit of; habitué [F.]; at home in (skillful) [See Skill]; seasoned; imbued with, soaked in, permeated with, never free from; devoted to, wedded to.
  HACKNEYED, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted, ingrafted or engrafted, permanent, inveterate, besetting, naturalized; ingrained (intrinsic) [See Intrinsicality].
   ADVERB:HABITUALLY &c. adj.; always (uniformly) [See Uniformity].
  AS USUAL, as is one’s wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the sparks fly upwards; as you were [mil.]; more suo [L.], more solito [L.]; ex more [L.].
  AS A RULE, for the most part; generally &c. adj.; most -often, – frequently.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Cela s’entend.
2. Abeunt studia in mores.
3. Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est.
4. Consuetudo quasi altera natura.—Cicero
5. Hoc erat in more majorum.
6. How use doth breed a habit in a man!—Two Gentlemen
7. Magna est vis consuetudinis; morem fecerat usus.—Ovid
8. Custom, like Winter, is the king of all.—Masefield