accustom
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Old French acostumer, acustumer, French accoutumer; à (Latin ad) + Old French costume, French coutume, custom. See custom.
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to accustom (third-person singular simple present accustoms, present participle accustoming, simple past and past participle accustomed)
- (transitive) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.
- ca. 1753: I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. - John Hawkesworth et al., Adventurer
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be wont.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit.
- We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. - John Milton
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To make familiar by use
To cohabit
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[edit] Noun
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accustom (plural accustoms)
[edit] References
- accustom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
