What does accustom mean?

Definitions for accustom
əˈkʌs təmac·cus·tom

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. habituate, accustomverb

    make psychologically or physically used (to something)

    "She became habituated to the background music"

Wiktionary

  1. accustomnoun

    Custom.

  2. accustomverb

    To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.

  3. accustomverb

    To be wont.

  4. accustomverb

    To cohabit.

  5. Etymology: acoustumer, acustumer (Modern French accoutumer) corresponding to a + coustume. More at custom, costume.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. Accustomverb

    to make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to

  2. Accustomverb

    to be wont

  3. Accustomverb

    to cohabit

  4. Accustomnoun

    custom

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. 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

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of accustom in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of accustom in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of accustom in a Sentence

  1. Marcus Aurelius:

    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.

  2. Saint Teresa of Avila:

    Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

  3. Samuel Johnson:

    Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

  4. Marcus Aurelius:

    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.

  5. John Bunyan:

    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.”

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