accustom

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ə.ˈkəs.təm/

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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

Synonyms

• habituate, get used to, inure, exercise, train

Related terms

• custom, customary

Translations

To make familiar by use

Bulgarian: свиквам (bg) Dutch: doen wennen (aan), (to accustom oneself) wennen (aan) Finnish: totuttaa, sopeuttaa German: sich gewöhnen Hebrew: הסכין (hee-skeen)

Latin: assuesco (la), adsuesco (la) Portuguese: acostumar (pt) Scottish Gaelic: cleachd (gd) Spanish: acostumbrarse (es), habituar (es) Thai: คุ้นเคย (khoon-khuey)

To be wont

Dutch: plegen (nl)

Latin: assuesco (la), adsuesco (la)

To cohabit

Latin: assuesco (la), adsuesco (la)

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French: accoutumer Ido: kustumar Interlingua: accostumar

Isthmus Zapotec: rusiaa Old French: acostumer, acustumer Spanish: acostumbrarse

Noun

accustom (plural accustoms)

1. (obsolete) Custom.

References

• accustom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913