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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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, v.i.
1. To be wont, or habituated to do anything. [Little used.]
2. To cohabit. [Not used.]
ACCUS'TOM, n. Custom. [Not used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music" [syn: habituate, accustom]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French acostomer, from a- (from Latin ad-) + custume custom Date: 15th century to make familiar with something through use or experience • accustomation noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. & refl. (foll. by to) make (a person or thing or oneself) used to (the army accustomed him to discipline; was accustomed to their strange ways). Etymology: ME f. OF acostumer (as AD-, costume CUSTOM)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Accustom Ac*cus"tom, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accustomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Accustoming.] [OF. acostumer, acustumer, F. accoutumer; [`a] (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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Accustom 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Accustom Ac*cus"tom, n. Custom. [Obs.] --Milton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(accustoms, accustoming, accustomed) If you accustom yourself or another person to something, you make yourself or them become used to it. (FORMAL) The team has accustomed itself to the pace of first division rugby... Shakespeare has accustomed us to a mixture of humor and tragedy in the same play. = familiarize VERB: V pron-refl to n, V n to n see also accustomed

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Habituate, inure, use, harden, familiarize, train, discipline, drill, break in. See addict.