different between accustom vs familiarise

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

familiar +? -ise

Verb

familiarise (third-person singular simple present familiarises, present participle familiarising, simple past and past participle familiarised)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of familiarize.
   • 2003, Alex Kimbell, The Unbridgeable Divide (page 54)

     Mr Avery was a great believer in mnemonics; he had one for every possible aspect of flying – which was as good a way as any for student pilots to familiarise themselves with their new environment […]

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: familiarisent, familiarises

Verb

familiarise

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