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accustoming, vbl. n.|aˈkʌstəmɪŋ|
[f. accustom v. + -ing1.]
†1. The action of making oneself familiar with, using, practising, consorting. Obs.
1567J. Maplet Greene Forest 25 Brought to it by evill accustoming, [thou] giuest consent, and, so wonne, dost becken at it. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 235 Their people with small accostoming understand the Liturgies well enough. 1643Milton Divorce (1851) iii. 27 They who have liv'd most loosely by reason of their bold accustoming, prove most succesfull in their matches.
2. The action of habituating or familiarizing. Now always gerundial.
1617Hieron Wks. II. 340 Now the accustoming of the tongue to euill speech is like the poysoning of the well. Mod. By accustoming one's eyes gradually to the light. |