habitude

Etymology

From Middle English habitude, from Middle French habitude, from Latin habitūdō (“condition, plight, habit, appearance”), from habeō (“I have, hold, keep”).

noun

1. (archaic) 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. 1597, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint (114)
2. (archaic) Habitual disposition; normal or characteristic mode of behaviour, whether from habit or from nature
   An habitude of commanding his passions in order to his health. 1683, John Dryden, Life of Plutarch (21)
   […] there was something of the habitude of the wild animal in the unreflecting instinct with which she rambled on — disconnecting herself by littles from her eventful past at every step, obliterating her identity […] 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
   With the instinct of old habitude they fell to the oars, Barbara rowing the better and the stronger. 1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water
3. (obsolete) Behaviour or manner of existence in relation to something else; relation; respect.
   Proportion ... signifies the habitude or relation of one quantity to another. 1732, George Berkeley, Alciphron (4.21)
4. (obsolete) In full habitude: fully, wholly, entirely; in all respects.
   Although I believe not the report in full habitude. 1661, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England (1.165)
5. (obsolete) habitual association; familiar relation; acquaintance; familiarity; intimacy; association; intercourse.
   The discourse of some with whom I have had some habitudes since my coming home. 1665, John Evelyn, Memoirs (3.65)
6. (obsolete) an associate; an acquaintance; someone with whom one is familiar.
   La Corneus and Sallyes were the only habitudes we had. 1676, George Etherege, The Man of Mode (4.1)
7. Habit; custom; usage.
   Which […] by long habitude, are thought rather vertue than vice among them. 1599, James I of England, Basilikon Doron (28)
8. (obsolete, chemistry, in the plural) 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. 1818, Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics (32)