Hypertext Webster Gateway: "accustom"
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)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Accustom \Ac*cus"tom\, n.
Custom. [Obs.] --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
accustom
v : make used (to something); "She became habituated to the
background music" [syn: {habituate}]
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