accustomv.

Brit.

/əˈkʌstəm/, U.S.

/əˈkəstəm/

Forms: late Middle English accostome, late Middle English accustume, late Middle English acostom, late Middle English acostome (past participle, perhaps transmission error), late Middle English acustomme, late Middle English acustume, late Middle English–1500s acustom, late Middle English– accustom, 1500s–1600s accostom, 1500s–1600s accustome, 1500s–1700s accustum.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French acustumer.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman acustumer, acostomer, Anglo-Norman and Middle French acostumer, acoustumer, Middle French accoustumer (French accoutumer ) to make (oneself) familiar with (something) (1160 in Old French used transitively, 13th cent. or earlier used reflexively), to make (a person or thing) familiar with or used to something (c1170), to be in the habit of doing something, to be used to something (13th cent. or earlier, in passive), to make (oneself) familiar with or used to something (1272 or earlier) < a- a- prefix⁵ + costume , coustume , custume custom n. Compare Old Occitan acostumar , Catalan acostumar (13th cent.), Spanish acostumbrar (c1250 as †acostumpnar , †acustumar ), Portuguese acostumar (13th cent.), Italian accostumare (a1292), and also post-classical Latin accostomare to levy custom on (13th cent. in a British source), accostomatus accustomed, habituated (1502, 1550 in British sources). Compare slightly earlier accustomance n. With sense 2c compare accustomed adj. 2.On English and French forms in acc- see discussion at ac- prefix. A variant of the past participle with loss of the ending is sometimes found in the construction to be accustomed to (see sense 1a), e.g.:1982 VA Home Loan Guaranty Program (U.S. 97th Congr. 2nd Sess. House. Comm. Veterans' Affairs) 24 Lenders in the State of Florida are accustom to dealing with the VA.2002 K. F. Franklin Lukewarm Christian 110 He or she will love you if you are..looking the way they are accustom to.

1. Chiefly with to or infinitive.

a. transitive. To make (a person or thing) familiar with or used to something; to familiarize, habituate. In early use chiefly in passive.In passive use sometimes approaching the stative adjective; cf. accustomed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > accustom (a person)

weanc960

wonc1175

to teach to1297

usec1300

usec1405

accustom1422

wontc1440

custom?c1450

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induce1490

habituate1530

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usage1530

trade1539

to trade up1556

exercise1558

flesh1591

habit?1615

habitate1621

occasion1684

usen1715

usen1861

ethize1876

1422 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1834) III. 18 (MED) Yf hit be suche matere þat þe King hath be accustumed to be conseilled of.

a1460 tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Helm.) (1999) 13 (MED) Loke that ye enforce you nat to make hem swere, that ye knowe bene accustumed to lye.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xxxv. ii Bulwarkes about accustomed for warre.

?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman i. ii. sig. C.ij^v What thynge soeuer they haue ben accustomed in before, they do the same afterward.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. xxiii. 9 Let not thy mouth be accustomed with swearinge [1611 Accustome not thy mouth to swearing].

1586 R. Cecil Copie Let. to Earle of Leycester 14 I haue not accustomed my tongue to be an instrument of untrueth.

1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xiii. 23 Then may ye also doe good, that are accustomed to doe euill.

1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building 32 To accustome the Neapolitan great Saddle-Horse to raise their Neck.

1683 K. Chetwood tr. Plutarch Life Lycurgus in J. Dryden et al. tr. Plutarch Lives I. 170 Their heads were shav'd, they were accustomed to go bare-foot, and for the most part to play naked.

1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful ii. §3. 43 When we can accustom our eyes to it [sc. danger], a great deal of the apprehension vanishes.

1788 T. Reid Ess. Active Powers Man i. vii. 530 We are accustomed to call the first the cause, and the last the effect.

1798 J. Abernethy in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 108 Neither could I..so accustom the animal to the circulation of unoxygenated blood, as to lengthen the term of its existence.

1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV lxi. 33 For I have been accustom'd to entwine My thoughts with nature rather in the fields Than Art in galleries.

1828 J. S. Sebright Observ. Hawking (new ed.) 20 To accustom him to stand to the hood.

1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 60 The ear is not accustomed to exercise constantly its functions of hearing, it is accustomed to stillness.

1883 Home Missionary July 128 A time when Christians needed to accustom their minds to larger things.

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 May 394/2 It is better to accustom all singers to watch a stick and to train up a generation of conductors who know the technique of using it.

1959 J. A. Stovel Canada in World Econ. ix. 119 The brands and trade-marks to which he had been accustomed by persistent advertising.

1963 M. McCarthy Group xiv. 341 And we accustomed him to noise.

2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 13 Sept. (Arts & Leisure section) 10/3 Fire off each line quickly to accustom them to the choppy sentence structure.

b. transitive (reflexive). To make oneself familiar with or used to something.

ΚΠ

?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 9 (MED) She acustomed her selff of youthe to serue God devoutly.

1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) vii. 20 It shalle be to yow a lyght thyng, yf ye acustomme yow therin.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 182 We should accustome vs with much abasing of our selues, reuerently to looke vp vnto the mightinesse of god.

1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. ix. 148 If we accustome our selues with sinning,..our custome will waxe to be our nature.

1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 436 As absurd..as it would be for a man to accustome himself to no other dyet but slabber-sauces, and Druggs.

1662 W. Faithorne Art of Graveing & Etching xiv. 15 Accustome your self to strike your strokes firm and bold.

1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 327 I cannot enough accustom my selfe to this fashion to find any Beauty in it.

1754 Earl of Chatham Lett. to Nephew (1804) v. 39 Towards servants, never accustom yourself to rough and passionate language.

1800 J. Carey Lat. Prosody made Easy Pref. p. iii If a student,..in reading them under the direction of a teacher who is a good prosodian, accustom himself to pronounce every syllable with its due measure, [etc.].

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxix. 296 Gradually accustoming ourselves to indoor life and habits.

1898 G. B. Shaw Philanderer iii. 135 Will you give me time to accustom myself to our new relations?

1914 Jrnl. Micrology Jan. 12 Those commencing the study of micrology are advised..to accustom themselves to examine with the microscope..such objects of interest as may present themselves.

1984 P. Ackroyd T. S. Eliot iv. 83 He had to accustom himself to the routine which he had only recently established.

2002 New Yorker 6 May 50/2 People here have accustomed themselves to financial turbulence.

c. intransitive. To be in the habit of doing something; to be used to something. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > act habitually [verb (intransitive)] > be accustomed to do something

willeOE

wonc1000

haunta1400

customc1450

accustomc1475

use1533

wonta1547

practise1582

want1627

observea1629

c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) i. l. 108 (MED) Acustume not to swere grete othis.

1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1890) II. 67/34 The haeretikis accustomis to dissaue..incircumspect men.

a1571 J. Jewel Expos. 1 Thess. 78 in Wks. (1611) The mouth that accustometh to lie slaieth the soule.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 27^v Some accustomed to burne it on heapes in pits at the cliffe side.

1668 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 209 Those, therefore, who..accustom to wash their heads, instead of powdering, would doubtless find the benefit of it.

1839 Sat. Mag. 30 Nov. 207/1 The miser..from long accustoming to cheat others, came at last to cheat himself.

1893 Proc. Convent. Public Readers 51 Let us accustom to public talking.

1920 G. Brackenbury Stud. Eng. Idiom (rev. ed.) 149 I accustom to go to school.

2008 H. Wixom & J. Wixom When Angels Intervene 106 All these beliefs we accustom to call knowledge.

†2.

a. transitive. To make (something) usual, habitual, normal, or familiar; to practise habitually. Frequently in passive. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > render (a thing) habitual > make familiar

accustom1439

familiarize1594

1439–40 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1439 §53. m. 3 Al the rolles, recordes and processes..have remayned in the kepyng of the chief justice of the same bynche, in a place therto I ordeyned and accustomyd.

1445–6 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1445 §49. m. 2 Wher also of old tyme passed, it hath been accustumed and continuelly usyd, that the gaugeour [etc.].

1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos vii. sig. Ciij [They] dyd alle other thynges, whiche is acustumed to be doon bytwene neyghbours and good frendes.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cliii. 182 [He] was made cardynall..by authoritie of a bull fro the pope, the which hadde nat be acustomed ther before.

1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido iv. sig. E3 Such ceremonious thankes, As parting friends accustome on the shoare.

1650 T. Venner Advt. in Via Recta (rev. ed.) 370 It were much better for them to abate and attemper their bloud by fasting..then to accustome the opening of a vein.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 88 Whether such tithes be due and accustomed..cannot be determined in the ecclesiastical court.

b. intransitive. To go regularly or habitually to a place; (also) to consort with. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > haunting or resorting > haunt or resort [verb (intransitive)]

floatc1315

haunta1375

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resort1432

abraid?a1439

accustomc1475

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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate together or with [verb (intransitive)]

mingc1275

company1387

joinc1390

meddlec1390

herd?a1400

fellowshipc1430

enfellowship1470

to step in1474

accompany?1490

yoke?a1513

to keep with ——c1515

conjoin1532

wag1550

frequent1577

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consort1588

sort1595

commerce1596

troop1597

converse1598

to keep (also enter, come into, etc.) commons1598

to enter common1604

atone1611

to walk (also travel) in the way with1611

minglea1616

consociate1638

associate1644

corrive1647

co-unite1650

walk1650

cohere1651

engage1657

mix1667

accustom1670

to make one1711

coalite1735

commerciate1740

to have nothing to say to (also with)1780

gang?1791

companion1792

mess1795

matea1832

comrade1865

to go around1904

to throw in with1906

to get down1975

c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) ii. B. l. 2073 (MED) Also accustom not to the comen Alehous.

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 101 All those sea fishes which accustome to Aquitania.

1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 83 We with the best men accustom op'nly; you with the basest commit private adulteries.

c. transitive. To use (something) regularly or habitually; to frequent, esp. as a customer. Cf. accustomed adj. 2. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > use or make use of [verb (transitive)] > use repeatedly

frequent1485

trade?1551

accustom1792

1690 [implied in: London Gaz. No. 2606/4 The Bull-Inn in Fenny-Stratford..a well Accustomed Inn, is to be Lett ready Furnished. (at accustomed adj. 2)].

1792 Bishopric Garland (new ed.) 19 A house that's within full sea mark, Is very well accustomed by men.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. xiv. 320 An house used by the military in his time as a young man, and accustomed by his lordship ever since.

1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Hant, to haunt, to accustom, as a pigeon to its dovecot.]

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	accustom
释义	† accustomn. Forms: see accustom v. Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by conversion. Or (ii) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: accustom v.; custom n. Etymology: Either < accustom v., or alteration of custom n. after accustom v. Compare earlier accustomance n. Obsolete. Custom, habit; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] i-wunec888 wise971 gatec1175 lawc1175 manners?c1225 wone?c1225 usec1325 hauntc1330 use1340 rotec1350 consuetude1382 customancea1393 usancea1393 practicc1395 guisea1400 usagea1400 wonta1400 spacec1400 accustomancec1405 customheada1425 urec1425 wontsomenessc1425 accustomc1440 wonningc1440 practice1502 habitudec1598 habiture1598 habit1605 wonting1665 c1440 (?a1396) W. Hilton in G. G. Perry Eng. Prose Treat. (1921) 20 (MED) To haue Ihesu in his mynde..and by acostom he hase it nerehande alway in his mynde. c1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Tiber.) l. 19178 (MED) Til he resume ageyne his myght, Off acustom, to take his fflyght. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cvii^v One wold not mynusshe hys lawes & accustomes. 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 64 The accustome and usage Of auncient poetis. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 46 Hoele..by auncient Accustume was wont to gyve the Bagge of the Sylver Harpe to the beste Harper of North Walys. 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 21 Tribonian defines Matrimony a conjunction of man and woman containing individual accustom of life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2018). accustomv. Brit. /əˈkʌstəm/, U.S. /əˈkəstəm/ Forms: late Middle English accostome, late Middle English accustume, late Middle English acostom, late Middle English acostome (past participle, perhaps transmission error), late Middle English acustomme, late Middle English acustume, late Middle English–1500s acustom, late Middle English– accustom, 1500s–1600s accostom, 1500s–1600s accustome, 1500s–1700s accustum. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French acustumer. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman acustumer, acostomer, Anglo-Norman and Middle French acostumer, acoustumer, Middle French accoustumer (French accoutumer ) to make (oneself) familiar with (something) (1160 in Old French used transitively, 13th cent. or earlier used reflexively), to make (a person or thing) familiar with or used to something (c1170), to be in the habit of doing something, to be used to something (13th cent. or earlier, in passive), to make (oneself) familiar with or used to something (1272 or earlier) < a- a- prefix⁵ + costume , coustume , custume custom n. Compare Old Occitan acostumar , Catalan acostumar (13th cent.), Spanish acostumbrar (c1250 as †acostumpnar , †acustumar ), Portuguese acostumar (13th cent.), Italian accostumare (a1292), and also post-classical Latin accostomare to levy custom on (13th cent. in a British source), accostomatus accustomed, habituated (1502, 1550 in British sources). Compare slightly earlier accustomance n. With sense 2c compare accustomed adj. 2.On English and French forms in acc- see discussion at ac- prefix. A variant of the past participle with loss of the ending is sometimes found in the construction to be accustomed to (see sense 1a), e.g.:1982 VA Home Loan Guaranty Program (U.S. 97th Congr. 2nd Sess. House. Comm. Veterans' Affairs) 24 Lenders in the State of Florida are accustom to dealing with the VA.2002 K. F. Franklin Lukewarm Christian 110 He or she will love you if you are..looking the way they are accustom to. 1. Chiefly with to or infinitive. a. transitive. To make (a person or thing) familiar with or used to something; to familiarize, habituate. In early use chiefly in passive.In passive use sometimes approaching the stative adjective; cf. accustomed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > accustom (a person) weanc960 wonc1175 to teach to1297 usec1300 usec1405 accustom1422 wontc1440 custom?c1450 enure1489 inure1489 induce1490 habituate1530 ure1530 usage1530 trade1539 to trade up1556 exercise1558 flesh1591 habit?1615 habitate1621 occasion1684 usen1715 usen1861 ethize1876 1422 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1834) III. 18 (MED) Yf hit be suche matere þat þe King hath be accustumed to be conseilled of. a1460 tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Helm.) (1999) 13 (MED) Loke that ye enforce you nat to make hem swere, that ye knowe bene accustumed to lye. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xxxv. ii Bulwarkes about accustomed for warre. ?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman i. ii. sig. C.ij^v What thynge soeuer they haue ben accustomed in before, they do the same afterward. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. xxiii. 9 Let not thy mouth be accustomed with swearinge [1611 Accustome not thy mouth to swearing]. 1586 R. Cecil Copie Let. to Earle of Leycester 14 I haue not accustomed my tongue to be an instrument of untrueth. 1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xiii. 23 Then may ye also doe good, that are accustomed to doe euill. View more context for this quotation 1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building 32 To accustome the Neapolitan great Saddle-Horse to raise their Neck. 1683 K. Chetwood tr. Plutarch Life Lycurgus in J. Dryden et al. tr. Plutarch Lives I. 170 Their heads were shav'd, they were accustomed to go bare-foot, and for the most part to play naked. 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful ii. §3. 43 When we can accustom our eyes to it [sc. danger], a great deal of the apprehension vanishes. 1788 T. Reid Ess. Active Powers Man i. vii. 530 We are accustomed to call the first the cause, and the last the effect. 1798 J. Abernethy in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 108 Neither could I..so accustom the animal to the circulation of unoxygenated blood, as to lengthen the term of its existence. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV lxi. 33 For I have been accustom'd to entwine My thoughts with nature rather in the fields Than Art in galleries. 1828 J. S. Sebright Observ. Hawking (new ed.) 20 To accustom him to stand to the hood. 1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 60 The ear is not accustomed to exercise constantly its functions of hearing, it is accustomed to stillness. 1883 Home Missionary July 128 A time when Christians needed to accustom their minds to larger things. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 May 394/2 It is better to accustom all singers to watch a stick and to train up a generation of conductors who know the technique of using it. 1959 J. A. Stovel Canada in World Econ. ix. 119 The brands and trade-marks to which he had been accustomed by persistent advertising. 1963 M. McCarthy Group xiv. 341 And we accustomed him to noise. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 13 Sept. (Arts & Leisure section) 10/3 Fire off each line quickly to accustom them to the choppy sentence structure. b. transitive (reflexive). To make oneself familiar with or used to something. ΚΠ ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 9 (MED) She acustomed her selff of youthe to serue God devoutly. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) vii. 20 It shalle be to yow a lyght thyng, yf ye acustomme yow therin. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 182 We should accustome vs with much abasing of our selues, reuerently to looke vp vnto the mightinesse of god. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. ix. 148 If we accustome our selues with sinning,..our custome will waxe to be our nature. 1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 436 As absurd..as it would be for a man to accustome himself to no other dyet but slabber-sauces, and Druggs. 1662 W. Faithorne Art of Graveing & Etching xiv. 15 Accustome your self to strike your strokes firm and bold. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 327 I cannot enough accustom my selfe to this fashion to find any Beauty in it. 1754 Earl of Chatham Lett. to Nephew (1804) v. 39 Towards servants, never accustom yourself to rough and passionate language. 1800 J. Carey Lat. Prosody made Easy Pref. p. iii If a student,..in reading them under the direction of a teacher who is a good prosodian, accustom himself to pronounce every syllable with its due measure, [etc.]. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxix. 296 Gradually accustoming ourselves to indoor life and habits. 1898 G. B. Shaw Philanderer iii. 135 Will you give me time to accustom myself to our new relations? 1914 Jrnl. Micrology Jan. 12 Those commencing the study of micrology are advised..to accustom themselves to examine with the microscope..such objects of interest as may present themselves. 1984 P. Ackroyd T. S. Eliot iv. 83 He had to accustom himself to the routine which he had only recently established. 2002 New Yorker 6 May 50/2 People here have accustomed themselves to financial turbulence. c. intransitive. To be in the habit of doing something; to be used to something. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > act habitually [verb (intransitive)] > be accustomed to do something willeOE wonc1000 haunta1400 customc1450 accustomc1475 use1533 wonta1547 practise1582 want1627 observea1629 c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) i. l. 108 (MED) Acustume not to swere grete othis. 1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1890) II. 67/34 The haeretikis accustomis to dissaue..incircumspect men. a1571 J. Jewel Expos. 1 Thess. 78 in Wks. (1611) The mouth that accustometh to lie slaieth the soule. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 27^v Some accustomed to burne it on heapes in pits at the cliffe side. 1668 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 209 Those, therefore, who..accustom to wash their heads, instead of powdering, would doubtless find the benefit of it. 1839 Sat. Mag. 30 Nov. 207/1 The miser..from long accustoming to cheat others, came at last to cheat himself. 1893 Proc. Convent. Public Readers 51 Let us accustom to public talking. 1920 G. Brackenbury Stud. Eng. Idiom (rev. ed.) 149 I accustom to go to school. 2008 H. Wixom & J. Wixom When Angels Intervene 106 All these beliefs we accustom to call knowledge. †2. a. transitive. To make (something) usual, habitual, normal, or familiar; to practise habitually. Frequently in passive. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > render (a thing) habitual > make familiar accustom1439 familiarize1594 1439–40 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1439 §53. m. 3 Al the rolles, recordes and processes..have remayned in the kepyng of the chief justice of the same bynche, in a place therto I ordeyned and accustomyd. 1445–6 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1445 §49. m. 2 Wher also of old tyme passed, it hath been accustumed and continuelly usyd, that the gaugeour [etc.]. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos vii. sig. Ciij [They] dyd alle other thynges, whiche is acustumed to be doon bytwene neyghbours and good frendes. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cliii. 182 [He] was made cardynall..by authoritie of a bull fro the pope, the which hadde nat be acustomed ther before. 1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido iv. sig. E3 Such ceremonious thankes, As parting friends accustome on the shoare. 1650 T. Venner Advt. in Via Recta (rev. ed.) 370 It were much better for them to abate and attemper their bloud by fasting..then to accustome the opening of a vein. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 88 Whether such tithes be due and accustomed..cannot be determined in the ecclesiastical court. b. intransitive. To go regularly or habitually to a place; (also) to consort with. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > haunting or resorting > haunt or resort [verb (intransitive)] floatc1315 haunta1375 repaira1393 resort1432 abraid?a1439 accustomc1475 use1488 frequent1577 howff1808 society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate together or with [verb (intransitive)] mingc1275 company1387 joinc1390 meddlec1390 herd?a1400 fellowshipc1430 enfellowship1470 to step in1474 accompany?1490 yoke?a1513 to keep with ——c1515 conjoin1532 wag1550 frequent1577 encroach1579 consort1588 sort1595 commerce1596 troop1597 converse1598 to keep (also enter, come into, etc.) commons1598 to enter common1604 atone1611 to walk (also travel) in the way with1611 minglea1616 consociate1638 associate1644 corrive1647 co-unite1650 walk1650 cohere1651 engage1657 mix1667 accustom1670 to make one1711 coalite1735 commerciate1740 to have nothing to say to (also with)1780 gang?1791 companion1792 mess1795 matea1832 comrade1865 to go around1904 to throw in with1906 to get down1975 c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) ii. B. l. 2073 (MED) Also accustom not to the comen Alehous. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 101 All those sea fishes which accustome to Aquitania. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 83 We with the best men accustom op'nly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. c. transitive. To use (something) regularly or habitually; to frequent, esp. as a customer. Cf. accustomed adj. 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > use or make use of [verb (transitive)] > use repeatedly frequent1485 trade?1551 accustom1792 1690 [implied in: London Gaz. No. 2606/4 The Bull-Inn in Fenny-Stratford..a well Accustomed Inn, is to be Lett ready Furnished. (at accustomed adj. 2)]. 1792 Bishopric Garland (new ed.) 19 A house that's within full sea mark, Is very well accustomed by men. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. xiv. 320 An house used by the military in his time as a young man, and accustomed by his lordship ever since. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Hant, to haunt, to accustom, as a pigeon to its dovecot.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1440v.1422
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