Obs. [ad. L. addīct-us assigned by decree, made over, bound, devoted; pa. pple. of addīcĕre, f. ad to + dīcĕre to say, pronounce. Now replaced by ADDICTED.]
1. Formally made over or bound (to another); attached by restraint or obligation; obliged, bound, devoted, consecrated.
1529. J. Frith, Antithesis, 318. Be not partially addict to the one nor to the other. Ibid. (1533), Agst. Rastell. (1829), 217. As the Spirit of God is bound to no place, even so is he not addict to any age or person.
1549. L. Coxe, Erasm. Paraphr. Titus i. 1. I Paule my selfe ye addict seruaunt & obeyer, not of Moses lawe as I was once, but of God ye father.
c. 1577. J. Northbrooke, Against Dicing (1843), 6. I perceive myself something addict & tyed with the bonds of singular & great friendship.
1583. Fulke, Defence, xiii. 448. Delivering is a kind of ‘dissolving,’ or ‘breaking from him’ to whom he was before addict or bound.
2. Attached by one’s own inclination, self-addicted to (a practice); devoted, given, inclined to.
1535. J. ap Rice, in Four Cent. of Eng. Lett. (1881), 33. He seemeth to be addict to the mayntenyng of suche supersticious ceremones.
1551. Robinson, trans. More’s Utopia (1869), 165. I beyng then of purpose more earnestly addict to heare.
1561. J. Daus, trans. Bullinger on Apocal. (1573), 141. Geuen to voluptuousnes, full of surfetting, addicte to filthy lust.
1598. Marston, Met. Pigmalions Image, i. 141. Robrus … adic’t to nimble fence.
1640. Homilies, II. v. (1859), 301. Neither would we at this day be so addict to superstition, were it not that we so much esteemed the filling of our bellies.
1790. Cowper, Iliad, V. 1084. A foolish daughter petulant, addict To evil only.
