Definition of Accustam
Ac*cus"tom (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Accustomed (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n.
Accustoming.] [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.
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. Custom. [Obs.]
Milton.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.
ca. 1753: I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. - John Hawkesworth et al., Adventurer
- (Obsolete): To be wont - Thomas Carew
- (Obsolete): To cohabit
Quotations
*We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. - John Milton
- (Obsolete): Custom - John Milton
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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