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Addict [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Addicted. [Not much used.]

Addict [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To apply one's self habitually; to devote time and attention by customary or constant practice; sometimes in a good sense.

2. They have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints. 1 Corinthians 16:15 .

3. More usually, in a bad sense, to follow customarily, or devote, by habitually practicing that which is ill; as, a man is addicted to intemperance.

4. To addict one's self to a person, a sense borrowed from the Romans, who used the word for assigning debtors in service to their creditors, is found in Ben Jonson, but is not legitimate in English.

Addict [Past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Addicted; devoted.

Addict [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to.

2. To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.

Addicted [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Devoted by customary practice.

Addicted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Addict

Addictedness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The quality or state of being addicted.

Addictedness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.

Addicting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Devoting time and attention; practicing customarily.

Addicting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Addiction [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of devoting or giving up in practice; the state of being devoted.

2. His addiction was to courses vain.

3. Among the Romans, a making over goods to another by sale or legal sentence; also an assignment of debtors in service in their creditors.

Addiction [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.