different between cohabit vs accustom

English

Etymology

From Latin cohabit?; co- + habit? (“I dwell, I live in”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko??hæb?t/
• Rhymes: -æb?t

Verb

cohabit (third-person singular simple present cohabits, present participle cohabiting, simple past and past participle cohabited)

1. (intransitive) To live together with someone else, especially in a romantic and sexual relationship but without being married.
2. (intransitive) To coexist in common environs with.
3. (intransitive, archaic) To engage in sexual intercourse; see coition.

Synonyms

• (to live together with someone else): cohabitate
• (to engage in sexual intercourse): fornicate, have sex, make love; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Related terms

• cohabitation

Translations

Translations

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.