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/ədˈɪkt/ /ˈædˌɪkt/ Listen

verb

Addict v. t. (past & past part. addicted; pres. part. addicting)

To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; with to. "They addict themselves to the civil law." "He is addicted to his study." "That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations." "His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity." "A man gross... and addicted to low company."

To adapt; to make suitable; to fit. (Obs.) "The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth."

Synonyms: Addict, Devote, Consecrate, Dedicate. Addict was formerly used in a good sense; as, addicted to letters; but is now mostly employed in a bad sense or an indifferent one; as, addicted to vice; addicted to sensual indulgence. "Addicted to staying at home." Devote is always taken in a good sense, expressing habitual earnestness in the pursuit of some favorite object; as, devoted to science. Consecrate and dedicate express devotion of a higher kind, involving religious sentiment; as, consecrated to the service of the church; dedicated to God.

Addict past part. Addicted; devoted. (Obs.)

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"Addict" Quotes from Famous Books

... these beautiful ladies here this evening. We just had dinner, and I presume I should make an after-dinner speech. I have always wanted to attend a Northern Nut Growers Association convention. I am more or less of what you might call a convention addict and speak on any occasion on slight provocation. I attended a convention at Quebec earlier this year, and after that I went on to Rio de Janiero in South America and attended another convention, but this privilege of being able ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report - at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 • Various

... one probably never paralleled in the history of adventure—more like the dream of a hashish-smoking addict than cold reality. ...

— The Flying Legion • George Allan England

... not quite finish the whole porcupine, but it was an odd and companionable meal, there in the darkness with the barely-glowing coals well-hidden from sight. Lockley said, "I'm sort of a news addict. Shall we see what the wild ...

— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... pardon me: Nulla ars simul et inventa est et absoluta. {19c} I do not desire to be equal to those that went before; but to have my reason examined with theirs, and so much faith to be given them, or me, as those shall evict. I am neither author nor fautor of any sect. I will have no man addict himself to me; but if I have anything right, defend it as Truth's, not mine, save as it conduceth to a common good. It profits not me to have any man fence or fight for me, to flourish, or take my side. Stand for truth, and ...

— Discoveries and Some Poems • Ben Jonson

... society into which it has thrown them, are not favourable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise. Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them; and they addict themselves to inferior pleasures, not because they deliberately prefer them, but because they are either the only ones to which they have access, or the only ones which they are any longer capable of enjoying. It may be questioned whether any one who has remained equally ...

— Utilitarianism • John Stuart Mill

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