accustom

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: ac=cus=tom

CIDE DICTIONARY

accustom, v. t. [OF. acostumer, acustumer, F. accoutumer; à (L. ad) + OF. costume, F. coutume, custom. See Custom.].

 To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.  [1913 Webster]
"I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- To habituate; inure; exercise; train.

accustom, v. i. 

•  To be wont.  Carew.  [1913 Webster]
•  To cohabit.  [1913 Webster]

  "We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries."  [1913 Webster]

accustom, n. 

 Custom.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

accustom, v.tr. & refl. (foll. by to) make (a person or thing or oneself) used to (the army accustomed him to discipline; was accustomed to their strange ways).

Etymology

ME f. OF acostumer (as AD-, costume CUSTOM)

ROGET THESAURUS

accustom

Habit

VB be wont, fall into a rut, fall into a custom, tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten, stare super antiquas vias, move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way, habituate, inure, harden, season, caseharden, accustom, familiarize, naturalize, acclimatize, keep one's hand in, train, get into the way, get into the knack of, learn, cling to, adhere to, repeat, acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick, addict oneself to, take to, get into, be habitual, prevail, come into use, become a habit, take root, gain upon one, grow upon one.