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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
accustom
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
▪ He is so accustomed to taking charge, and so fearful of intrusions, that he feels he can trust only himself.
▪ But we were so accustomed to it that we hardly even thought to conceive otherwise.
▪ Maybe they were so accustomed to their job that they thought this was hilarious.
to
▪ They could not produce a new conversation in the milliseconds that they were accustomed to.
▪ The middle-aged may want to preserve an order they are accustomed to, or perhaps their careers.
■ NOUN
people
▪ The oral media have accustomed people to continual and infinitely practicable mutability.
▪ A cavalier Southerner, he was hot-blooded, self-confident, accustomed to swaying people through his force of personality.
■ VERB
become
▪ BUsers of conventional phones have long become accustomed to Bfree 911 access as a public right.
▪ The higher the education the higher priced drinks they become accustomed to.
▪ Men believed that a person could become accustomed to confinement.
▪ Besides, she had become accustomed to Sally.
▪ People tend to adjust the volume upward as their ears become accustomed to a given sound intensity.
▪ We live in an age of niche markets, in which customers have become accustomed to high quality and extensive choice.
▪ It takes a day at least for me to become accustomed to the motion of the ship.
▪ It was a bleak existence, but what struck Joe was how easily he and his fellow internees became accustomed to it.
get
▪ You have got to accustom yourself to the book that is written from several different viewpoints.
▪ Your eyes get accustomed to the dark and you see the waitress is naked.
▪ After nine months as people were getting accustomed to feeling well, they were less compliant with their follow up data.
▪ She could never get accustomed to motel trysts.
▪ They get accustomed to humdrum research and will create more when the current assignment runs dry.
▪ Frankie's in for an education as he gets accustomed to a whole world he has no experience with.
grow
▪ During her six months at the lab, Faith and the others have grown accustomed to the testing.
▪ He grew accustomed to feeling inexpert and out of his depth.
▪ He had grown accustomed to Salomon Brothers' bonus sessions, where he had rarely got more than he expected.
▪ As our eyes grow accustomed to the dark, we tell each other bits of plot, funny lines, odd facts.
▪ The Raiders have grown accustomed to their defensive problems by now.
▪ It was awash with phosphorescence, which grew brighter minute by minute as their eyes grew accustomed to the scene.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be accustomed to (doing) sth
▪ I'm not accustomed to getting up so early.
▪ Steph was accustomed to a regular paycheck.
▪ A judge, however, perhaps more than any other person, is accustomed to making and announcing his decisions in public.
▪ Allen Iverson had been spectacular, but he is accustomed to that.
▪ I am accustomed to a political argument that cuts to the core.
▪ Pagans were accustomed to using temples as safe-deposits for their treasures.
▪ She was accustomed to hanging up her own coat.
▪ The two girls were accustomed to not talking at meals.
▪ Watson, I am accustomed to being baffled by complexity.
▪ We are accustomed to the infinite length of the horizon all about us.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A worn out slob, he can not accustom himself to the idea of women playing the sport seriously.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accustom

Accustom \Ac*cus"tom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accustomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Accustoming.] [OF. acostumer, acustumer, F. accoutumer; [`a] (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.

Accustom

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.

Accustom

Accustom \Ac*cus"tom\, n. Custom. [Obs.]
--Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
accustom

early 15c., from Old French acostumer (12c., Modern French accoutumer), from à "to" (see ad-) + costume (see costume (n.)). Related: Accustomed; accustoming.

Wiktionary
accustom

n. (context obsolete English) custom. vb. 1 (lb en transitive) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with ''to''. 2 (lb en intransitive obsolete) To be wont. 3 (lb en intransitive obsolete) To cohabit.

WordNet
accustom

v. make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music" [syn: habituate]

Usage examples of "accustom".

In a time like ours, when we are primarily concerned with the practical application of scientific discoveries, we are mostly accustomed to regard such flights of thought from a past age as nothing but the unessential accompaniment of youthful, immature science, and to smile at them accordingly as historical curiosities.

She accustomed her husband to consider Julian as a youth of a mild, unambitious disposition, whose allegiance and gratitude might be secured by the gift of the purple, and who was qualified to fill with honor a subordinate station, without aspiring to dispute the commands, or to shade the glories, of his sovereign and benefactor.

The love of rapine and war allured to the Imperial standard several tribes of Saracens, or roving Arabs, whose service Julian had commanded, while he sternly refused the payment of the accustomed subsidies.

Kempis was not an apparent distort, and the savage callousness that Anareta had become accustomed to seeing in the faces of ardent criminals was not there.

Though history has accustomed us to observe every principle and every passion yielding to the imperious dictates of ambition, it is scarcely credible that, in these moments of horror, Sulpicianus should have aspired to ascend a throne polluted with the recent blood of so near a relation and so excellent a prince.

The only instance in which Julian seemed to depart from his accustomed clemency, was the execution of a rash youth, who, with a feeble hand, had aspired to seize the reins of empire.

Anubis ignored the entrance to the zigzag path and at first Susan thought that the smell of aniseed must have vanished in the keen morning air, and that the hounds, having nothing to guide them, were now intent on their accustomed run on the moor and were heading for their usual playground.

Rian interrupted with the autocratic ease of one accustomed to making others wait.

We keep a supply of ready-cut balsa logs for expressly this purpose, and we are accustomed to lashing rafts together in an hour or two.

Besides the accustomed lights, two great wax tapers, called Christmas candles, wreathed with greens, were placed on a highly polished beaufet among the family plate.

As soon as her eyes had grown accustomed to the light, Lady Bellamy went up to the body, and, drawing off the sheet, gazed long and steadily at the mutilated face, on the lips of which the bloody froth still stood.

Their eyes now accustomed to the low light indoors, and with the car headlamps still providing limited illumination, they searched through the bloodied remains of the shop, picking through the wreckage as if they were high street window shoppers on a Saturday afternoon.

Her Grace of Norfolk had repeatedly assured them that they owned a lifetime sinecure of her and her service, it was his bounden duty to keep them at the hall in the style to which they were accustomed so long as they lived and with no common toil or labor expected of them, they had at last and grudgingly agreed to meet with some of the prospective bridegrooms.

They were bound to have skilled trackers with them, men accustomed to the winter trails of bouquetin and chamois.

While she spoke, a small bell rang, and the Bravo withdrew into the inner room, like one accustomed to that place of retreat.