V. 1361, au sens de «complexion»; lat. habitudo «manière d'être, état», de habitum, supin de habere «avoir, se trouver dans un état».
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The PIE root is *segh- also underlies Greek hexis "habit" (holding a certain condition)bud-agi (pbp.)
casbidan be estâ ye knuni !! (târixi)
siâq (az hamân *segh- ?)
xu(-greft-a-gi)
âdat (ar.)
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Ey basâ zolm i ke bini dar kasân
Xu ye to bâšad dar išân ey folân
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Con be qa'r e xu ye xod andar rasi
Pas be dâni k'az to bud ân nâ-kasi
(Mathnavi, BALXI RUMI (Nikolson, Reynold), 1319, 1324, I)
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In addition to actual recollection, various other elements, more or less analogous to memory, enter into personality -- habits, for instance, which have been formed as a result of past experience. It is because, where there is life, events can form habits, that an "experience" differs from a mere occurence.
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Habit and memory are both due to effects on the body, especially the brain ; the formation of a habit may be thought of as analogous to the formation of a water-course.
(B. RUSSELL, Religion and Science, p. 141-2)
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"Habit" is a concept involving the occurrence of similar events at different times;
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Habit is a very intrusive feature of our mental life, and is often present where at first sight it seems not to be. There is, for example, a habit of remembering a unique event. When we have once described the event, the words we have used easily become habitual.
(B. RUSSELL,
The Analysis of Mind)
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life. This seems incredible to a person who has reflected upon the harmfulness of some of our habits.
(B. RUSSELL, Sceptical essays, p. 113)
n. ความเคยชิน,ประเพณีนิยม,นิสัย. คำศัพท์ย่อย: habitudinal adj.
['haebitju:d] n 1. привичка, навик; 2. книж. наклонност, склонност, темперамент.