Inured vs Habituated - What's the difference?
inured | habituated |
(inure)
To cause (someone) to become accustomed (to something); to habituate.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
* 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 465:
* 1996 , , The Demon-Haunted World
(intransitive, chiefly, legal) To take effect, to be operative.
* Jim buys a beach house that includes the right to travel across the neighbor's property to get to the water. That right of way is said, cryptically, "to inure to the benefit of Jim".
(habituate)
To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.
* Sir K. Digby
* Tillotson
To settle as an inhabitant.
As verbs the difference between inured and habituated
is that inured is past tense of inure while habituated is past tense of habituate.inured
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*inure
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- To none of these evidences of a fearful tragedy of a long dead day did little Tarzan give but passing heed. His wild jungle life had inured him to the sight of dead and dying animals, and had he known that he was looking upon the remains of his own father and mother he would have been no more greatly moved.
- Your insults to myself can be endured, / I am a philosopher and am inured . / But there are insults that I will not swallow / That you have levelled at our gods.
- As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.
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* ----habituated
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(head)habituate
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(habituat)- our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime
- Men are first corrupted and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices.