He was a formidable adversary in discussion from his very irresponsibility; and he was especially successful with the more rhetorical sophists because he chose his own weapons, and substituted critical analysis, question and answer, for the long speeches to which these teachers were Habituated by their profession.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
We have long been Habituated to despise the Americans as an enemy unworthy of serious regard.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
Every piece of furniture in it vouches, not only for the wealth of its owner, but that he has not yet got sufficiently Habituated to the possession of it, to be as indifferent to its attributes as are those to whom custom has rendered splendour no longer a pleasure.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner