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Webster 1913 Edition


Accustom

Ac-cus′tom

,
Verb.
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

,
Verb.
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

,
Noun.
Custom.
[Obs.]
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Accustom

ACCUS'TOM

, v.t.
To make familiar by use; to form a habit by practice; to habituate or inure; as to accustom one's self to a spare diet.

ACCUS'TOM

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To be wont, or habituated to do anything. [Little used.]
2.
To cohabit. [Not used.]

ACCUS'TOM

,
Noun.
Custom. [Not used.]