| Definitions | | accustom |
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noun
- (obsolete) custom
verb
- (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. - w:John Hawkesworth, John Hawkesworth et al., Adventurer
- (context, intransitive, obsolete) To be wont.
- (context, intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit.
- We with the best men openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. - w:John Milton, John Milton
Translations: - Dutch: plegen
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(trans-bottom)
(trans-top, To cohabit)
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- German: sich gewí¶hnen
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Etymology: Old French acostumer, acustumer, French accoutumer; í (Latin ad) + Old French costume, French coutume, custom. See custom.
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