Acclimatized

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Acclimatize \Ac*cli"ma*tize\ ([a^]k`kl[imac]"m[.a]*t[imac]z), v.
     t. [imp. & p. p. {Acclimatized}
     ([a^]k`kl[imac]"m[.a]*t[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Acclimatizing} ([a^]k`kl[imac]"m[.a]*t[imac]`z[i^]ng).]
     To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which
     is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or


     strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or
     plants.
     [1913 Webster]