accustom

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Old French acoustumer, acustumer (Modern French accoutumer) corresponding to a (to, toward) + custom. More at custom, costume.

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  • IPA: /ə.ˈkəs.təm/
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[edit] Verb

accustom (third-person singular simple present accustoms, present participle accustoming, simple past and past participle accustomed)

  1. (transitive) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.
    • ca. 1753: John Hawkesworth et al., Adventurer
      I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be wont.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit.
    • We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. - John Milton

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[edit] Noun

accustom (plural accustoms)

  1. (obsolete) Custom.

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