\Hab"i*tude\, n. [F., fr. L. habitudo condition. See
{Habit}.]
1. Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with
   reference to something else; established or usual
   relations. --South.
         The same ideas having immutably the same habitudes
         one to another.                       --Locke.
         The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else
         than ?heir habitudes of thinking.     --Landor.
2. Habitual association, intercourse, or familiarity.
         To write well, one must have frequent habitudes with
         the best company.                     --Dryden.
3. Habit of body or of action. --Shak.
         It is impossible to gain an exact habitude without
         an infinite ?umber of acts and perpetual practice.
                                               --Dryden.