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Habitual vs Established - What's the difference?

habitual | established |

As adjectives the difference between habitual and established

is that habitual is behaving in a regular manner, as a habit while established is of a religion, church etc: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.

As a verb established is

(establish).

habitual

English

Alternative forms

* habituall (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Behaving in a regular manner, as a habit.
    • He's a habitual chainsmoker .
  • Recurring, or that is performed over and over again.
    • Her habitual lying was the reason for my mistrust .
  • Regular or usual.
    • Professor Franklein took his habitual seat at the conference table .

    Derived terms

    * habitually

    Related terms

    * habit

    established

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (establish)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 731:
    • Anglicanism did manage to strengthen its position in the southern English American colonies after Charles II's restoration (even in cosmopolitan New York), gaining established status in six out of the eventual thirteen.
  • (Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.

    • Derived terms

    * established church * long-established

    Synonyms

    * (abbreviation)