What does accustom mean?
Definitions for accustom
əˈkʌs təmac·cus·tom
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Princeton's WordNet
habituate, accustomverb
make psychologically or physically used (to something)
"She became habituated to the background music"
Wiktionary
accustomnoun
Custom.
accustomverb
To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.
accustomverb
To be wont.
accustomverb
To cohabit.
Etymology: acoustumer, acustumer (Modern French accoutumer) corresponding to a + coustume. More at custom, costume.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To ACCUSTOMverb
To habituate, to enure, with the particle to. It is used chiefly of persons.
Etymology: accoûtumer, Fr.
How shall we breathe in other air
Less pure, accustom’d to immortal fruits? Par. Lost, b. xi.It has been some advantage to accustom one’s self to books of the same edition. Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind, p. i. c. 17.
ChatGPT
accustom
Accustom refers to the process of familiarizing oneself or becoming adjusted to a certain behavior, situation, condition, or environment, through regular exposure or experience. It's a process of adaptation where something new or different becomes usual or normal.
Webster Dictionary
Accustomverb
to make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to
Accustomverb
to be wont
Accustomverb
to cohabit
Accustomnoun
custom
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Accustom
ak-kus′tum, v.t. to make familiar by custom: to habituate (with to).—adj. Accus′tomary.—p.adj. Accus′tomed, usual: frequent: habituated.—n. Accus′tomedness. [O. Fr. acostumer (Fr. accoutumer)—à, to, costume, coustume—L. consuetudinem. See Custom.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of accustom in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of accustom in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of accustom in a Sentence
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Faithful: What! why he (Shame) objected against religion itself; he said it was a pitiful, low, sneaking business for a man to mind religion; he said that a tender conscious was an unmanly thing; and that for a man to watch over his words and ways, so as to tie himself up from that hectoring liberty that the brave spirits of the times accustom themselves unto, would make him the ridicule of the times.”
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Accustom yourself to attend carefully to what is said by another, and as much as it is possible, try to inhabit the speaker’s mind.
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- свиквамBulgarian
- pflegen, gewöhnenGerman
- acostumbrarse, habituarSpanish
- totuttaa, sopeuttaaFinnish
- accoutumerFrench
- cleachdScottish Gaelic
- הסכיןHebrew
- familiarizzare, assuefarsi, abituarsi, adattarsiItalian
- assuefacioLatin
- plegenDutch
- acostumarPortuguese
- приуча́ть, привы́кнуть, приучи́ть, привыка́тьRussian
- คุ้นเคยThai
- alıştırmakTurkish
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