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English Dictionary: accustom by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
accustom
v
  1. make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music"
    Synonym(s): habituate, accustom
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Accustom \Ac*cus"tom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accustomed}; p. pr.
      & vb. n. {Accustoming}.] [OF. acostumer, acustumer, F.
      accoutumer; [85] (L. ad) + OF. costume, F. coutume, custom.
      See {Custom}.]
      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.                           --Adventurer.
  
      Syn: To habituate; inure; exercise; train.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Accustom \Ac*cus"tom\, v. i.
      1. To be wont. [Obs.] --Carew.
  
      2. To cohabit. [Obs.]
  
                     We with the best men accustom openly; you with the
                     basest commit private adulteries.      --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Accustom \Ac*cus"tom\, n.
      Custom. [Obs.] --Milton.
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