Found 4 hits - Term: accustom, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
accustom \accus"tom\, n.
custom. obs. --milton.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
accustom \accus"tom\, v. t. imp. p. p. accustomed; p. pr.
vb. n. accustoming. of. acostumer, acustumer, f.
accoutumer; `a l. ad + of. costume, f. coutume, custom.
see custom.
to make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure;
-- with to.
1913 webster
i shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to
fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to
practice it in greater. --adventurer.
1913 webster
syn: to habituate; inure; exercise; train.
1913 webster
see also:
accustomed accustoming custom
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
accustom \accus"tom\, v. i.
1. to be wont. obs. --carew.
1913 webster
2. to cohabit. obs.
1913 webster
we with the best men accustom openly; you with the
basest commit private adulteries. --milton.
1913 webster
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
accustom
v : make psychologically or physically used to something; "she
became habituated to the background music" syn: habituate
see also:
habituate
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