acclimatedadj.
/ˈaklᵻmeɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈækləˌmeɪdᵻd/ Now chiefly U.S.
Habituated to a new climate or environment; (esp. in figurative contexts) accustomed to new conditions. Now sometimes spec.: habituated physiologically or behaviourally to a change in a single factor under controlled conditions. Cf. acclimatized adj. Also as the second element in compounds, as cold-acclimated, warm-acclimated, etc.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [adjective] > of or relating to climate > acclimatized
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > accustomed, used, or wont > by adaptation to circumstances
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1822 Amer. Med. Recorder 5 91 As regards the lancet, I do not think its use often demanded in our autumnal diseases, more especially during the last season, when all strangers had fled, and left us only natives or acclimated foreigners.
1849 in J. R. Commons Doc. Hist. (1910) I. 253 The proprietor of several thousand arpents of land..is desirous to dispose of 45 acclimated negroes.
1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 592 Acclimated, as I may say, to such incidents.
1862 Times 18 Apr. 8/6 Even among the acclimated New Orleanists the annual mortality is [etc.].
1921 B. Matthews in S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. V. 8 I have asked why these thoroughly acclimated French words should not be made to wear our English livery.
1961 Times 24 Feb. 3/6 Shivering ceases in the acclimated animal.
1996 Jrnl. Neurocytol. 25 127/1 In cold-acclimated rats, an enlargement of the vascular connective tissue and an evident increase of paucilocular and multilocular adipocytes were observed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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