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verb

Accustom v. t. (past & past part. accustomed; pres. part. accustoming) To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; with to. "I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater."

Synonyms: To habituate; inure; exercise; train.

Accustom v. i.

To be wont. (Obs.)

To cohabit. (Obs.) "We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries."

noun

Accustom n. Custom. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Accustom" Quotes from Famous Books

... itself; he said it was a pitiful, low, sneaking business for a man to mind religion; he said that a tender conscience was an unmanly thing; and that for a man to watch over his words and ways, so as to tie up himself from that hectoring liberty that the brave spirits of the times accustom themselves unto, would make him the ridicule of the times. He objected also, that but few of the mighty, rich, or wise, were ever of my opinion [1 Cor. 1:26; 3:18; Phil. 3:7,8]; nor any of them neither [John 7:48], before they were persuaded to be fools, and to be of a voluntary fondness, to venture ...

— The Pilgrim's Progress - From this world to that which is to come. • John Bunyan

... better accustom himself to this kind of thing as early as possible. 'Yes, Trixie,' he said, 'they're the first proofs ...

— The Giant's Robe • F. Anstey

... the means of protecting the interests of neutrals, but it is in itself a step towards the creation of the more general court for the hearing of international controversies to which reference has just been made. The organization and action of such a prize court can not fail to accustom the different countries to the submission of international questions to the decision of an international tribunal, and we may confidently expect the results of such submission to bring about a general agreement upon ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... Karen reflected, looked in the dual illumination like a portrait by Besnard. He had, certainly, an unusual and an interesting face, and it pleased her to verify and emphasize this fact; for, accustomed as she was to watching Tante's preoccupations with interesting people, she could not quite accustom herself to her preoccupation with Mr. Drew. To account for it he must ...

— Tante • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

... to accustom marine fish to live in fresh water; but as such changes in fish, and other marine animals, have been chiefly observed in a state of nature, they do not properly belong to our present subject. The period of gestation ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin

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