Word: 'habit' • Extended Annotations
Word: 'habit' • Extended Annotations
from Latin habitus "condition, demeanor, appearance, garment/dress, attire"
noun, first usage in the 13th century, in the sense of "clothing", "characteristic attire of a religious or clerical order"
verb, first used in the 16th century
only the verb is still used in the same sense as then
“Whether this talk will be of any meaningful consequence, or not, is unknown. We may never stand before one another again. At this point, an exchanging of names would be a purely habitual adherence to convention ― a custom, of no relevance whatsoever should we never meet again.”
"Weird Genius"
| ~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
| ⚜ | classic definition |
| ☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |
