habitude

noun habitudes

1. archaic, countable, uncountable The essential character of one's being or existence; native or normal constitution; mental or moral constitution; bodily condition; native temperament. His real habitude gave life and grace / To appertainings and to ornament.
2. archaic, countable, uncountable Habitual disposition; normal or characteristic mode of behaviour, whether from habit or from nature [I]ts thought, that, in the Seed are alvvaies potentially ſeuerall indiuiduating Qualities deriu'd from diuers of the neere Anceſtors, vvhich by the formatiue povver of the Parents may be expreſt in the Children, vvith reſpectiue habitude to either Sex; […]
3. countable, obsolete, uncountable Behaviour or manner of existence in relation to something else; relation; respect. And although Proportion ſtrictly ſignifies the Habitude or Relation of one Quantity to another, yet, in a looſer and tranſlated Senſe, it hath been applied to ſignify every other Habitude; and conſequently the Term Analogy comes to ſignify all Similitude or Relations, or Habitudes vvhatſoever.
4. countable, obsolete, uncountable In full habitude: fully, wholly, entirely; in all respects. Although I believe not the report in full habitude.
5. countable, obsolete, uncountable habitual association; familiar relation; acquaintance; familiarity; intimacy; association; intercourse. The discourse of some with whom I have had some habitudes since my coming home.
6. countable, obsolete, uncountable an associate; an acquaintance; someone with whom one is familiar. La Corneus and Sallyes were the only habitudes we had.
7. countable, uncountable Habit; custom; usage. Which […] by long habitude, are thought rather vertue than vice among them.
8. countable, in plural, obsolete, uncountable The various ways in which one substance reacts with another; chemical reaction. Most authors who have had occasion to describe naphthaline, have noticed its habitudes with sulphuric acid.