accustom - definition, synonyms and pronunciation

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make psychologically or physically used (to something)“She became habituated to the background music”Synonyms: habituateMore general change, alterMore specific inure, teach, addict

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Ac·cus′tom (…), transitive verb [past tense & past participle Accustomed (…); present participle & verbal noun Accustoming.]

Origin: OF. acostumer, acustumer, F. accoutumer; à (L. ad) + OF. costume, F. coutume, custom. See Custom.

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.

Ac·cus′tom intransitive verb

1. To be wont. obsolete Carew, Richard

2. To cohabit. obsolete

We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries.— John Milton

Ac·cus′tom noun

Custom. obsolete John Milton

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54