habituate
verb (used with object)
to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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For one thing it adopts an impersonal criterion; for another it adopts an earthly criterion; for a third it is habituating men to think quantitatively.
From Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann