Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
accustom en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
The verb is from Middle English accustomen, from Old French acoustumer, acustumer (Modern French accoutumer) corresponding to a (“to, toward”) + custom. More at custom, costume.
The noun is from Middle English acustom.
Meanings
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(obsolete) Custom.
Forms
accustom en · VERB
Pronunciation
Etymology
The verb is from Middle English accustomen, from Old French acoustumer, acustumer (Modern French accoutumer) corresponding to a (“to, toward”) + custom. More at custom, costume.
The noun is from Middle English acustom.
Meanings
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(qualifier:often passive voice or reflexive, transitive, with to) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure.
“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:He took it [a television] back to his unfurnished room and began watching as much as he could, including Ms. Winfrey’s show, to accustom his ear to hearing English.
2011 March 11, Larry Rohter, “CNN’s Latin Sister Looks to Capture a Booming Market”, in The New York Times:Early exposure to pet allergens and pet-related bacteria accustoms the body to allergens.
[…] creating 3D graphics “is a fundamental building block” to popularizing AR because it helps accustom the general public to interacting with 3D content.
2017 May 31, Jonathan Vanian, “How Microsoft Is Sowing the Seeds of an Augmented Reality Future”, in Fortune:I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater.
c. 1753, John Hawkesworth et al., Adventurer:Although it might be thought that drivers would naturally refer constantly to the speedometer, older drivers who come to diesel driving after years of steam experience without the help of speedometers, as well as those on steam engines which have been equipped with speedometers in recent years, have not accustomed themselves to the constant use of this instrument.
1962 December, “Talking of Trains: Derailment at Lincoln”, in Modern Railways, page 375:
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(intransitive, obsolete) To be wont.
all of them accustoming , once in the year , to take their kind of the fresh water
1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
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(intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit.
Much better do we Britans fulfill the work of Nature than you Romans; we with the beſt men accuſtom op'nly; you with the baſest commit private adulteries.
1670, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 83:
Forms
Deriveds
unaccustom · accustomable · disaccustom · accustomary · accustomate · reaccustom
Hyponyms
climatize · acculture · acclimate · acclimatize
Relateds
familiarize · custom · customary · train
Synonyms
Intransitive: · compensate · train · accommodate · exercise · get used to · adjust · inure · adapt · habituate · season · wont · accustom · Transitive:
Translations (47)
de gewöhnen (to make familiar by use) · pl przyzwyczajać (to make familiar by use) · fi totuttaa (to make familiar by use) · uk призвича́їти (to make familiar by use) · bg свиквам (to make familiar by use) · izh aatuttaa (to make familiar by use) · th คุ้นเคย (to make familiar by use) · mi whakawaia (to make familiar by use) · uk привчи́ти (to make familiar by use) · it assuefarsi (to make familiar by use) · sq mësoj (to make familiar by use) · fi sopeuttaa (to make familiar by use) · lad auzar (to make familiar by use) · it abituarsi (to make familiar by use) · ru приуча́ть (to make familiar by use) · it adattarsi (to make familiar by use) · de pflegen (to be wont) · sh на̀вићи (to make familiar by use) · uk привча́ти (to make familiar by use) · nl wennen (to make familiar by use) · ru привыка́ть (to be wont) · ru приучи́ть (to make familiar by use) · hu szoktat (to make familiar by use) · la assuefacio (to make familiar by use) · nl plegen (to be wont) · he הסכין (to make familiar by use) · sh nàviknuti (to make familiar by use) · pl przyzwyczaić (to make familiar by use) · gl acostumar (to make familiar by use) · de sich gewöhnen (to be wont) · gd cleachd (to make familiar by use) · lad akostumbrar (to make familiar by use) · fr accoutumer (to make familiar by use) · it familiarizzare (to make familiar by use) · uk призвича́ювати (to make familiar by use) · es acostumbrar (to make familiar by use) · sh nàvići (to make familiar by use) · ru привы́кнуть (to be wont) · izh aattua (to be wont) · hu rászoktat (to make familiar by use) · zza mısayen (to make familiar by use) · nl doen wennen (aan) (to make familiar by use) · pt acostumar (to make familiar by use) · gl adoitar (to make familiar by use) · hu hozzászoktat (to make familiar by use) · ca acostumar (to make familiar by use) · sh на̀викнути (to make familiar by use)