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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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Etymology of 'Accustom'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Accustom" Quotes from Famous Books

... maintain a quiet and cheerful frame of mind while tones of discontent and displeasure are sounding on the ear. We may gradually accustom ourselves to the evil till it is partially diminished; but it always is an evil which greatly interferes with the enjoyment of the family state. There are sometimes cases where the entrance of the mistress of a family ...

— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

... was easier for her to face Doyle in a black mood than the gulf below the window-sill, but she knew now that she must get away, if she were to go at all. She got out of bed, and using her crutches carefully moved to the sill, trying to accustom herself to the thought of going over the edge. The plaster cast on her leg was a real handicap. She must get it over first. How heavy ...

— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... so clever as Madame Michon! It's not so much clumsiness, but you are afraid of getting pricked. Men are a cowardly race. As for women, they have to accustom themselves to suffer. It's true: to be a woman is to be nearly ...

— A Mummer's Tale • Anatole France

... share she had the audacity to place her leavings on my plate, an action which called forth rebuke enough from Grossmamma. I did not understand what she said, but I strongly suspected that she abused her for wishing to accustom the "new child" to eating a great deal. Generally speaking, I had brought from home the suspicion that, when two people were speaking German before me, they were surely hatching some secret plot against me, the end of which would be, either that I would not get something, ...

— Debts of Honor • Maurus Jokai

... would comfort her to see you; when her present visitors have left her, we will go to her chamber, if the scene will not be too melancholy for your spirits. But, indeed, to such scenes, however painful, we ought to accustom ourselves, for they are salutary to the soul, and prepare us for what we are ourselves ...

— The Mysteries of Udolpho • Ann Radcliffe

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