habilatory

[Fr. habil ( ler ) = to clothe; -atory.] Pertaining to habiliments or clothing; wearing clothes. "Is not the dandy culottic, habilatory, by law of existence?"- Carlyle: Fr. Revol., pt. iii., bk. vii., ch. ii. *hab-ile, *ha-ble, a . [Lat. habilis fit, proper, manageable.] Fit; proper; ready; apt; skillful; handy; qualified. "Habile and ready to every good work."- Waller . ha-bil-i-ment, *ha-bil-li-men, *ha-byl-yment, s. [Fr. habillement , from habiller =to dre , clothe; originally to get ready, from Lat. habilis .] [HABILE.] A dre ; a garment; an article of dre or clothing. (Usually in the plural.) "Thus plated in habiliments of war." Shakesp.: Richard II ., i. 3. ha-bil-1-ment-ed, a . [Eng. habiliment ; ed.] Dre ed, clothed, equipped. *ha-bil-i-tāte, a. [Lat. habilitas = aptne , fit ne , from habilis fit, apt.] [HABILE.] Qualified, entitled. "They were attainted, and thereby not legall, nor habil . itate to serue in Parliament."- Bacon : Henry VII. *ha-bil-i-tāte, v . t . [HABILITATE, a.] To make fit, to qualify, to entitle. *ha-bil-i-ta-tion, s . [HABILITATE, a .] A qual if i cation. "What is habilitation without intention and act?" Bacon: E ays; Of Kingdoms and Estates . *ha-bil-i-ty, s. [Fr. habilité .] Ability (q. v.). hab-it, *ab-it, *ab ite, *ha-bite, s . [Fr. habit =a garment, a dre , from Lat. habitus =(s.) a condition, habit, or dre , (a.) held in a certain condition, from habeo =to have or hold.] I. Ordinary Language : *1. A state or condition of the body, either natural or acquired; constitutional temperament of the body. *2. Practice, use, usage; a tendency toward any state or course of action arising from frequent repe titi on of the same acts. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, "How use doth breed a habit in a man." Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen of Verona, v. 4. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; habitat 3. A peculiar practice, use, or custom, acquired by frequent repetition. "He hath a better bad habit of frowning than the Count Palatine."-Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, i. 2. 4. A way or acting; a course or line of conduct. "And a sinful habit differs from a sinful act but as many differ from one, or as a year from an hour."-Bp. Taylor: On Repentance, ch. iv., § 2. 5. Dre , garb, apparel; spec if., the loose dre worn by ladies while riding; a riding-habit. "There we stood in our habite , bare-footed and bareheaded." -Hackluyt : Voyages , i. 109. 6. Outward appearance, carriage, deportment. "Put on a sober habit." II. Technically : Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , ii. 2. 1. Metaphysics : Facility in doing and an inclination to do a thing acquired by doing it frequently. Reid and Hartley regard the operations resulting from our acquired dexterities and habits as merely mechanical or automatic; Dugald Steward allows to each several motion a separate act of conscious volition; and Sir W. Hamilton accords to the mind a conscious volition over the series, but denies it a consciousne and deliberate volition in regard to each separate movement. Habit differs from disposition in this, that while both are tendencies to action, disposition properly denotes a natural, habit an acquired, tend ency. 2. Bot .: The general appearance and mode of growth in a plant, without attention to the details of the subject. 3. Biol.: Changed habits either in man or the lower animals produce an inherited effect. [USE.] ( Darwin .) For the difference between habit and custom , see CUSTOM. Habit and repute: Scots Law and Ord. Lang.: Common reputation; used of anything held and reputed to be true. Thus, in Scotland, one may be by habit and repute a thief, and habit and repute goes a considerable length in proving a Scotch marriage between persons who cohabit, and are by common rumor man and wife. ( Bell , vi.)