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accustom
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)
- (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.”
- ca. 1753, John Hawkesworth et al., Adventurer
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be wont.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Carew to this entry?)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit.
Synonyms
- habituate, get used to, inure, exercise, train
Related terms
- custom, customary
Translations
Noun
accustom (plural accustoms)
- (obsolete) Custom.
References
- accustom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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attuned
English
Verb
attuned
- simple past tense and past participle of attune
Adjective
attuned
- (of a musical instrument) Tuned to the correct pitch.
- Brought into harmony; harmonized.
- Having been changed to fit in with a particular context or to be in sync with a phenomenon.
Translations
Anagrams
- nutated, taunted
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