habitude

noun8

1. •
   Habit; custom; usage.

   • Which […] by long habitude, are thought rather vertue than vice among them. — 1599
2. •
   (no longer used) 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
3. •
   (no longer used) 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. — 1609
4. •
   (no longer used) habitual association; familiar relation; acquaintance; familiarity; intimacy; association; intercourse.

   • The discourse of some with whom I have had some habitudes since my coming home. — 1640
5. •
   (no longer used) Behaviour or manner of existence in relation to something else; relation; respect.
6. •
   [in the plural] (no longer used) 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
7. •
   (no longer used) an associate; an acquaintance; someone with whom one is familiar.

   • La Corneus and Sallyes were the only habitudes we had. — 1676
8. •
   (no longer used) In full habitude: fully, wholly, entirely; in all respects.

   • Although I believe not the report in full habitude. — 1662