habitual

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
habitual
    adj 1: commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed
           thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his
           habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor" [syn:
           {accustomed}, {customary}, {habitual}, {wonted(a)}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Habitual \Ha*bit"ual\ (h[.a]*b[i^]t"[-u]*al; 135), a. [Cf. F.
   habituel, LL. habitualis. See {Habit}, n.]
   1. Formed or acquired by habit or use.
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            An habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims.
                                                  --South.
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   2. According to habit; established by habit; customary;
      constant; as, the habitual practice of sin.
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            It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to
            be grateful for the most common and ordinary
            blessings.                            --Buckminster.

   Syn: Customary; accustomed; usual; common; wonted; ordinary;
        regular; familiar. -- {Ha*bit"u*al*ly}, adv. --
        {Ha*bit"u*al*ness}, n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "habitual":
      accepted, accustomed, addicted, arranged, automatic, average,
      beaten, businesslike, chronic, common, commonplace, confirmed,
      constant, continual, conventional, current, customary, established,
      everyday, familiar, fixed, formal, frequent, frequentative,
      habituated, hackneyed, hardened, harmonious, household, in hand,
      ingrained, instinctive, inveterate, involuntary, many, many times,
      methodical, natural, normal, normative, not rare,
      of common occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, ordered, orderly,
      ordinary, perpetual, persistent, popular, predominating,
      prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, recurrent, recurring, regular,
      regulation, repetitive, ritual, rooted, routine, set, settled,
      standard, steady, stereotyped, stock, symmetrical, systematic,
      thick-coming, traditional, trite, uniform, universal, usual,
      vernacular, well-ordered, well-regulated, well-trodden, well-worn,
      wonted

    

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