ADDICTION

ADDIC'TION, noun 1. The act of devoting or giving up in practice; the state of being devoted.His addiction was to courses vain.2. Among the Romans, a making over goods to another by sale or legal sentence; also an assignment of debtors in service in their creditors.

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Ad‐dic″tion (�), n. [[Cf. L. addictio an adjudging.]] The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination. “His addiction was to courses vain.” Shak.