different between accustom vs acclimatise

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

Verb

acclimatise (third-person singular simple present acclimatises, present participle acclimatising, simple past and past participle acclimatised)

1. Non-Oxford British English and New Zealand standard spelling of acclimatize.
   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[1]

     The England manager can be encouraged by more evidence that Rickie Lambert has quickly acclimatised to international football, with another headed goal to add to the one he scored against Scotland, but Welbeck's ban comes at a time when Wayne Rooney and Andy Carroll are already out and Daniel Sturridge is likely to join them.