Accustom

Pronunciation

• IPA: /É™.ˈkÉ™s.tÉ™m/

Origin

Old French acoustumer, acustumer (Modern French accoutumer) corresponding to a ("to, toward") + custom. More at custom, costume.

Full definition of accustom

Verb

1. (transitive) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.
• ca. 1753, John Hawkesworth et al., AdventurerI shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater.
• 1910, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price Chapter 1, “… 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.”
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be wont.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit.
• John MiltonWe with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries.

Synonyms

• habituate, get used to, inure, exercise, train

Related terms

• custom, customary

Noun

1. (obsolete) Custom.