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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
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HABIT, n., v. Also haibit (Abd. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xx.).

I. n. Used as in Eng., and in phr. in (on) good (intimate) habits with, on good terms with, intimate (Sc. 1787 J. Elphinston Propriety II. 119).Sc. 1809 Scott Letters (Cent. ed.) I. 219:
Siddons had shewn him some parts of the Manuscript as they are on most intimate habits.Sc. 1818 Scott H. Midlothian xlvii.:
By avoiding topics of dispute, the personages of our tale lived in great good habits with the gracious Duncan.

II. v. In pa.t. and pa.p. habit(t)ed, used to, accustomed, now obs. in this sense in Eng.Lth. 1925 C. P. Slater Marget Pow 30:
I am thankfu' to say that I was out when he came, no' being habitted with siccan popish plots.Ayr.⁹ 1955:
I habited to do that.