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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."

adjective

Accustomed adj.

Familiar through use; usual; customary. "An accustomed action."

Frequented by customers. (Obs.) "A well accustomed shop."

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Etymology of 'Accustomed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... women greater efficiency in the home than ever before. And Mary, many of the old-time industries which I had been accustomed to as a girl have passed away. Electricity and numerous labor-saving devices make household tasks easier, eliminating some altogether. When housekeeping you will find time to devote to many important questions of the day which we old-time housekeepers never dreamed of having. Considerable ...

— Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit - among the "Pennsylvania Germans" • Edith M. Thomas

... the inquiry petrified the doctor. He looked at Bouvard with a bewildered air; but Bouvard and the Swedenborgian, who were accustomed to the amazement of sceptics, were speaking together in a low voice and appeared not to notice him. Minoret begged them to allow him to return after dinner. The old philosopher wished to compose his mind and shake off this terror, so as to put this vast ...

— Ursula • Honore de Balzac

... indeed a grievance, and when Floyd teaches his wife to ride, as her pony is accustomed to the saddle, the cup brims over. He has announced the visitors to her, and she dreads, yet is most ...

— Floyd Grandon's Honor • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... like a Dutch than an English town—and wonderful to me was the Quay, with its fine houses on one side and its long line of ships on the other—something like the far-famed Bompjes of Rotterdam—and the narrow rows in which the majority of the labouring classes were accustomed to live. 'A row,' wrote Charles Dickens, 'is a long, narrow lane or alley, quite straight, or as nearly so as may be, with houses on each side, both of which you can sometimes touch with the finger-tips of each hand by stretching out your arms ...

— East Anglia - Personal Recollections and Historical Associations • J. Ewing Ritchie

... miscellaneous reading. But he could not withdraw his thoughts from his Lunar Theory, and he still continued to struggle with the difficulties of the subject, and was constantly scheming improvements. His private accounts also now gave him much trouble. Throughout his life he had been accustomed to keep his accounts by double entry in very perfect order. But he now began to make mistakes and to grow confused, and this distressed him greatly. It never seemed to occur to him to abandon his elaborate system of accounts, and to content himself with simple ...

— Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy • George Biddell Airy

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