accustomed, customary, habitual, wonted
(adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual; “his accustomed thoroughness”; “took his customary morning walk”; “his habitual comment”; “with her wonted candor”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
accustomed (comparative more accustomed, superlative most accustomed)
(of a person) Familiar with something through repeated experience; adapted to existing conditions.
(of a thing, condition, activity, etc.) Familiar through use; usual; customary.
(obsolete) Frequented by customers.
When referring to a person, accustomed is only used predicatively; when referring to a thing, it is only used attributively. The use of the infinitive following accustomed (e.g. accustomed to do) is obsolete; in contemporary English, the gerund is used in this context (e.g. accustomed to doing).
• (familiar through repeated experience): habituated, inured, used to, wonted
accustomed
simple past tense and past participle of accustom
Source: Wiktionary
Ac*cus"tomed, a.
1. Familiar through use; usual; customary. "An accustomed action." Shak.
2. Frequented by customers. [Obs.] "A well accustomed shop." Smollett.
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
7 November 2024
(verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; “Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
