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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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forwean
English
Etymology
From Middle English forwenien, forwanien, from Old English *forwenian (“to spoil”), from Proto-Germanic *frawanjan? (“to spoil”), equivalent to for- +? wean. Compare Middle Low German vorwenen (“to forwean”), German verwöhnen (“to spoil, pamper, indulge”), Danish forvænne (“to indulge”).
Verb
forwean (third-person singular simple present forweans, present participle forweaning, simple past and past participle forweaned)
- (transitive, obsolete) To accustom to bad habits; spoil by indulgence; pamper.
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