different between accustom vs acclimate

English

Etymology

From Old French acoustumer, acustumer (Modern French accoutumer) corresponding to a (“to, toward”) + custom. More at custom, costume.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.?k?s.t?m/

Verb

accustom (third-person singular simple present accustoms, present participle accustoming, simple past and past participle accustomed)

1. (transitive, often passive or reflexive) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure. [+ to (object)]
   • ca. 1753, John Hawkesworth et al., Adventurer

     I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater.

   • “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be wont.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Carew to this entry?)

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit.

Synonyms

• habituate, get used to, inure, exercise, train

Related terms

• custom, customary

Translations

Noun

accustom (plural accustoms)

1. (obsolete) Custom.

References

• accustom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

1792, from French acclimater.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??kla?.m?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æk.l?.me?t/, /??kla?.m?t/

Verb

acclimate (third-person singular simple present acclimates, present participle acclimating, simple past and past participle acclimated)

1. (transitive, chiefly US) To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.
2. (transitive, chiefly US) To adjust to a new environment; not necessarily a wild, natural, earthy one.
3. (intransitive, chiefly US) To become accustomed to a new climate or environment.

Synonyms

• acclimatise/acclimatize, accommodate, acculture, accustom, climatize, conform, get used to, habituate, harden, season, toughen, adjust

Derived terms

• acclimatation
• acclimatement
• acclimation

Related terms

• acclimatize
• climate

Translations

French

Verb

acclimate

1. first-person singular present indicative of acclimater
2. third-person singular present indicative of acclimater
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of acclimater
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of acclimater
5. second-person singular imperative of acclimater

Anagrams

• clameçait

Italian

Verb

acclimate

1. second-person plural present indicative of acclimare
2. second-person plural imperative of acclimare
3. feminine plural of acclimato

Anagrams

• malaticce