accustom Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make psychologically or physically used (to something)
    habituate.
    • She became habituated to the background music

WordNet

Ac*cus"tom transitive verb
Etymology
OF. acostumer, acustumer, F. accoutumer; à (L. ad) + OF. costume, F. coutume, custom. See Custom.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Accustomed present participle & verbal noun Accustoming
Definitions
  1. To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.
    I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.
    Syn. -- To habituate; inure; exercise; train.
Ac*cus"tom intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To be wont. Obs. Carew.
  2. To cohabit. Obs.
    We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. Milton.
Ac*cus"tom noun
Definitions
  1. Custom. Obs. Milton.

Webster 1913