Accustomed

4 definitions found

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

  Accustomed \Ac*cus"tomed\, a.
     1. Familiar through use; usual; customary. "An accustomed
        action." --Shak.
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     2. Frequented by customers. [Obs.] "A well accustomed shop."


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

  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.
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           I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to
           fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to
           practice it in greater.                  --Adventurer.
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     Syn: To habituate; inure; exercise; train.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  accustomed
       adj 1: (often followed by `to') in the habit of or adapted to;
              "accustomed to doing her own work"; "I've grown
              accustomed to her face" [ant: {unaccustomed}]
       2: commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed
          thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his
          habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor" [syn: {customary},
           {habitual}, {wonted(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "accustomed":
     accepted, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated, adapted,
     adjusted, average, case-hardened, chronic, common, commonplace,
     conditioned, confirmed, conventional, current, customary, everyday,
     experienced, familiar, familiarized, habitual, habituated,
     hardened, household, inured, naturalized, normal, normative,
     ordinary, orientated, oriented, popular, predominating,
     prescriptive, prevailing, regular, regulation, routine, run-in,
     seasoned, set, standard, stock, traditional, trained, universal,
     used, used to, usual, vernacular, wont, wonted