What does this phrase mean？ "be ginven to"
The original sentence from the GRE test:
In his youth, the naturalist and artist John James Audubon was given to _____ glamorous tales about himself ...
And the answer to this blank is "concocting". So what is the meaning of " was given to".
Really need some help, thx~~~~
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It means that he a tendency to, that he did it a lot, almost as a habit.
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