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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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