单词 | accustomed |
释义 | accustomedadj. 1. a. Customary, habitual, usual. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or customary wonesomec1200 wonec1275 customable1381 customeda1382 useda1382 wonta1382 wonted1408 accustomed1429 vulgarc1430 usualc1444 famosec1449 customalc1450 accustomablec1475 accustomatea1513 frequent1531 accustomary1541 customary1574 frequented1586 consuetudinary1590 ordinary1605 consuetudinal1656 habitual1689 solent1694 regulation1803 usitate1885 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > accustomed, used, or wont wontc888 haunteda1325 accustomed1429 consuetec1503 acquainted1572 frequent1575 occasioned1576 fain1596 wontlike1601 habited1605 habituate1606 wonted1611 practised1656 1429–30 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Sept. 1429 §14. m. 14 An hole disme of your lay poeple, to be arered in maner accustumed, paiable atte Cristemas come twelmoneth. c1453 (c1437) Brut (Harl. 53) 560 (MED) Charles, because of his acustumet sekenes, came not. 1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1890) II. 26 The vseit and accustomit end. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xviii. 310 He left them to be deuoured with pestilence, with hunger, and with the sworde the accustomed instrumentes of his wrath. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. v. 4 The common executioner Whose heart th' accustom'd sight of death makes hard. View more context for this quotation 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 75 They had prepared for them a Lamb, with the accustomed Sauce belonging thereto. 1702 J. Savage Compl. Hist. Germany 445 Those Princes..took the accustom'd Oaths accordingly. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. 341 He used the victory with his accustomed moderation. 1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 11 The accustomed nightingale still broods On her accustomed bough. 1872 Spectator 6 Apr. 444 The last years of John of Whethamstede's first abbotship were not passed without the accustomed miscellaneous litigations. 1927 Daily Express 29 Aug. 5 ‘Little Bits of Love’ went over with its accustomed success. 1966 P. Larkin in Crit. Q. 8 174 Hardy's reputation has not taken the accustomed posthumous dip: his books have continued to sell. 2007 New Yorker 15 Jan. 84/2 As the horrors accumulate, Amis finally unleashes his accustomed phantasmagoria, the witches' Sabbath that we have encountered so often in his novels. b. In the habit of doing something; used to something. Chiefly in predicative use with to or infinitive, esp. in to grow accustomed to, to become accustomed to. ΚΠ 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope ii. xviii He that is wonte and acustomed to robbe and gnawe, with grete payne he may absteyne him self fro hit. 1535 W. Marshall tr. Marsilius of Padua Def. of Peace xvi. 36 They are wonte and accustomed to obaye the predecessours of the sayde prynces or gouernours. 1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. v. 116 But suspitions were in Charles become inseparable and become naturall unto him, by reason of his being become accustomed to his mothers persecutions. 1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra ii. iv. 27 Little and little they grew accustomed to them. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Consuetudinal, accustomed, wont, used. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. ix. 96/2 By degrees, the eye grows accustomed to its new Whereabout. 1848 Maitland (New S. Wales) Mercury 26 Aug. 2/4 The sheep will camp quietly around the cart and watch-fire, after they become a little accustomed to it. 1851 Eclectic Mag. Sept. 113/1 Unaccustomed as I am to be moved or concerned by the dull thumps of Honorable Gentlemen in the English Parliament, and very accustomed to be amused by the sophisms and trickeries [etc.]. 1854 Woodworth's Amer. Misc. 257 John said nothing, but poured into his glass, with all the air of an accustomed drinker, an accustomed drinker's allowance. 1926 Boys' Life May 43/1 We are much too accustomed to turning a corner and confronting an Indian potentate, or a blood-thirsting pirate. 1957 ‘N. Shute’ On Beach vii. 22 Children had grown accustomed to playing in the empty roads and had no notion of getting out of the way. 1988 P. O'Brian Let. of Marque (1992) iii. 70 The accustomed eye..at once distinguishes the equivalent of eye-stripes, wing-bars and semi-palmated feet. 2014 Scottish Daily Mail 17 May 110/2 Growing up..in the sticks, those contemplating a career in professional football became accustomed to quizzical looks. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [adjective] > relating to shop > frequented by customers customed1578 accustomed1690 well-accustomed1690 tradeful1844 1690 London Gaz. No. 2606/4 The Bull-Inn in Fenny-Stratford..a well Accustomed Inn, is to be Lett ready Furnished. 1735 S.-Carolina Gaz. 10 May 3/1 A Tavern, which..is very good accustomed. 1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote III. ix. vi. 19 [Wildgoose] observed to my Landlord, ‘that his seemed to be a well-accustomed house’. 1803 Hull Advertiser 29 Oct. 1/1 A good-accustomed House. 1856 Local Preachers' Mag. Nov. 420/1 Cornwall may boast..the best accustomed public-houses. 1880 F. Peel Risings of Luddites v. 24 The St. Crispin..was a well accustomed house, and the inner doors were swinging to and fro in the usual fashion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1429 |
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