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verb

Accustom v. t. (past & past part. accustomed; pres. part. accustoming) 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."

Synonyms: To habituate; inure; exercise; train.

Accustom v. i.

To be wont. (Obs.)

To cohabit. (Obs.) "We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries."

noun

Accustom n. Custom. (Obs.)

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"Accustom" Quotes from Famous Books

... announcement of this plan occasioned a good deal of astonishment, but Roberval would listen to no remonstrances. Special accommodation would have to be arranged for them on board his ship, and they must learn to put up with hardships, and to accustom themselves to the life of colonists. It might be years before his return to France, and he had fully decided not to leave them behind. Whatever his purpose may really have been, he had evidently ...

— Marguerite De Roberval - A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier • T. G. Marquis

... avenue to a complete development of all her powers. The Chinese lady's shoe is nothing compared to the clamps and fetters which we Americans have put upon woman's mind and soul. An impartial observer would scarcely condemn the one and approve the other. What we need now is to accustom the public to these radical truths. Demand the ballot; demand woman's freedom. It is not a conflict of argument or reason, so much as a crusade against habit and prejudice. To tell the truth, I don't think there is a ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

... opening at the mouth of the shaft grew smaller and smaller to their eyes, and their lamps only cast a sickly, uncertain light on the walls beside them. They went down slowly, so slowly, that, as soon as he had had time to accustom himself to the new sensation, Charlie had plenty of opportunity to examine the walls. For the most part, they were roughly cased with boards and surrounded at intervals by the massive collar-timbers, projecting ...

— In Blue Creek Canon • Anna Chapin Ray

... maintain a quiet and cheerful frame of mind while tones of discontent and displeasure are sounding on the ear. We may gradually accustom ourselves to the evil till it is partially diminished; but it always is an evil which greatly interferes with the enjoyment of the family state. There are sometimes cases where the entrance of the mistress of a family seems to awaken a slight apprehension ...

— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

... suggested that as I was absolutely ignorant of German, the easiest manner in which I could accustom my ears to the sound of the language would be to take an abonnement at the theatre, and to go there nightly. So for the modest sum of thirty shillings per month, I found myself entitled to a stall in the second row, with the right of seeing thirty performances a month. I ...

— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton

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