different between customary vs accustom
customary
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?st?m(?)?i/
Noun
customary (plural customaries)
- A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
Translations
Adjective
customary (comparative more customary, superlative most customary)
- In accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage
- Synonyms: conventional, habitual
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- Holding or held by custom
Synonyms
- wont
Derived terms
- customarily
Related terms
- consuetude
- costumal
- costume
- custom
- customer
- customization
- customize
Translations
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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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