assuetude
See also: assuétude
English
Etymology
From Latin assuetudo, from assuetus (“accustomed”).
Noun
assuetude (countable and uncountable, plural assuetudes)
- Accustomedness; habit.
- Francis Bacon
- Assuetude of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt.
- Francis Bacon
- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)