definition of the word accustom

Old French acostumer, acustumer, French accoutumer; à (Latin ad) + Old French costume, French coutume, custom. See custom.

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to accustom (third-person singular simple present accustoms, present participle accustoming, simple past and past participle accustomed)

1. (transitive) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.
   • ca. 1753: I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. - John Hawkesworth et al., Adventurer
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be wont.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit.
   • We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. - John Milton

• To habituate; get used to; inure; exercise; train.

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