Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • past participle Clothed; arrayed; dressed.
  • past participle obsolete Fixed by habit; accustomed.
  • past participle Archaic Inhabited.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of habit.

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  • adjective dressed in a habit

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Examples

  • Consider: the raid began with Israeli jets taking off after dark and proceeding north toward the northeast corner of Syria, toward a bleak barely habited stretch of land near the Euphrates.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • Cloister bells toll the hour and habited sisters gather for daily devotions.

    Younger Catholic Women Get into the Habit 2011

  • The Pope, habited as at the Tenebrae preceded by the Cross, without his ring, without giving his blessing, enter the Chapel, deposits his mitre and says a short prayer.

    More Rare Images: Good Friday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel 2009

  • Cloister bells toll the hour and habited sisters gather for daily devotions.

    Younger Catholic Women Get into the Habit 2011

  • Consider: the raid began with Israeli jets taking off after dark and proceeding north toward the northeast corner of Syria, toward a bleak barely habited stretch of land near the Euphrates.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • And even after it was all over, looking back, I still feel more like I observed them rather than co-habited their skins as they went about their adventures.

    What I've Just Read: Midnight Never Come ewillett 2008

  • Nuns are also shown in the margins of initials, like in the birth of Mary in the Nuremberg gradual, where a kneeling habited figure venerates the newborn child. 152 Another nun in a Strasbourg processional observes Christ washing the feet of an apostle.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • A Benedictine like these his brothers, tonsured and habited, he stood erect in the dignity of his office and the humility and simplicity of his nature, as fragile as a child and as durable as a tree.

    His Disposition 2010

  • Using the nom de theatre Hilda Rohan, Mrs. Dawes had separated from her husband and had subsequently co-habited with Henderson, resulting in the birth of Alexander Olaf Henderson.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Steve 2010

  • Using the nom de theatre Hilda Rohan, Mrs. Dawes had separated from her husband and had subsequently co-habited with Henderson, resulting in the birth of Alexander Olaf Henderson.

    Effie Adelaide Rowlands Steve 2010

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