addictedness

It is true, that in his hours of penitence he recalled, with anguish, "a careless and dissolute life," by which, as he affirmed, he reduced himself to great and perplexing difficulties; he repented for his "love of vanity and addictedness to impurity and sensual pleasure," which had

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson

A horse whose hocks have a somewhat puffy look and whose skin on the front of the hock is loose and flabby, justly subjects himself to a suspicion of addictedness to this bad habit, but a little watching will soon establish the truth.

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

The reason for it is to be found in the strong addictedness of the Israelites to idolatry at the time of their departure from Egypt; and as it would have been easy for any by killing an animal to sacrifice privately to a favorite object of worship, a strict prohibition was made against their slaughtering at home.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Not given to much wine; the word denotes such addictedness thereto as to be under the power and mastery of it.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

As under the law the prohibition of idolatry was the commandment more insisted on than any other, foreseeing the people's addictedness to that sin, so Christ, foreseeing the addictedness of the

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

Ever since they were first formed into a people they were prone to idolatry; they brought with them out of Egypt a strange addictedness to that sin; and they were murmurers as soon as ever they began their march to Canaan.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

As pointing to that which God had chiefly in view in giving them this law in this manner, that is, their peculiar addictedness to idolatry, and the peculiar sinfulness of that crime.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721

On the contrary, Stephen says that when they made a calf, and offered sacrifice to the idol, God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven (Acts vii. 41, 42); so that the strange addictedness of that people to the sin of idolatry was a just judgment upon them for making and worshipping the golden calf, and a judgment they were never quite freed from till the captivity of Babylon.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721

Nature and Generation of Metals: And possibly, those that know how little I have remitted of my former addictedness to make Chymical

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Robert Boyle 1659

But I believe, addictedness to our own humours in things not necessary, which have no worth but from our disposition, doth oftener transport us beyond the bounds of charity than the apprehension of duty and conscience of sin.

The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640