ACCUSTOM

habituate, accustom

(verb) make psychologically or physically used (to something); “She became habituated to the background music”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

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

(intransitive) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure.

(intransitive, obsolete) To be wont.

(intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit.

Synonyms

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

Noun

accustom (plural accustoms)

(obsolete) Custom.

Source: Wiktionary


Ac*cus"tom, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accustomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Accustoming.] Etym: [OF. acostumer, acustumer, F. accoutumer; Ă  (L. ad) + OF. costume, F. coutume, custom. See Custom.]

Definition: 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. Adventurer.

Syn.

– To habituate; inure; exercise; train.

Ac*cus"tom, v. i.

1. To be wont. [Obs.] Carew.

2. To cohabit. [Obs.] We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. Milton.

Ac*cus"tom, n.

Definition: Custom. [Obs.] Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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