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accustomed


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Accustomed  \Ac*cus"tomed\,  a. 
  1.  Familiar  through  use  usual;  customary.  ``An  accustomed 
  action.''  --Shak. 
 
  2.  Frequented  by  customers.  [Obs.]  ``A  well  accustomed 
  shop.''  --Smollett. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  accustomed 
  adj  1:  (often  followed  by  `to')  in  the  habit  of  or  adapted  to 
  "accustomed  to  doing  her  own  work";  "I've  grown 
  accustomed  to  her  face"  [ant:  {unaccustomed}] 
  2:  commonly  used  or  practiced;  usual;  "his  accustomed 
  thoroughness";  "took  his  customary  morning  walk";  "his 
  habitual  comment";  "with  her  wonted  candor"  [syn:  {customary}, 
  {habitual},  {wonted(a)}] 




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