单词 | accustoming |
释义 | accustomingn. The action of becoming or making familiar with; the action of practising or frequenting regularly; familiarization, habituation. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > accustomedness > action or fact of accustoming usea1382 accustominga1475 inurance1571 inurement1592 enuring1606 assuefaction1644 wonting1692 using1702 habituation1816 a1475 ( S. Scrope tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Bodl. 943) (1999) 170 (MED) Wisedome is founde in a man bi longe lernynge, and good tacches comyth of good accustumynge. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 25 Brought to it by evill accustoming, [thou] giuest consent, and, so wonne, dost becken at it. 1605 E. Sandys Relation of Relig. sig. Y3v Their people with small accustoming vnderstand the language well enough. a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 340 Now the accustoming of the tongue to euill speech is like the poysoning of the well. 1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 8 They who have liv'd most loosely by reason of their bold accustoming, prove most succesfull in their matches. 1684 J. Goodman Winter-evening Conf. i. 20 The accustoming of the Beast to be rampant, and to run without the Rein. 1742 W. Cockburn tr. W. Harris in Full View Dis. Incident to Children 16 This accustoming of Children too soon to eat Flesh, is the most frequent and obstinate Cause of those Indigestions. 1767 H. Smith Lett. to Married Women xii. 177 The accustoming of them [sc. children] to a retrospection of their own behaviour. 1836 A. McIntyre Etymotonia 136 The accustoming of the ear and the eye to these classical analogies. 1898 S. Baruch Princ. & Pract. Hydrotherapy xxv. 395 This gradual accustoming of the usually timid patient to lower temperatures and higher pressure educates the reactive capacity. 1916 Times 28 Feb. 7/1 The accustoming of German troops to the resumption of the offensive. 1988 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 30 306 The accustoming of hunters and gatherers to the regular rhythms of an organized agricultural community. 2003 R. Palan Offshore World (2006) iv. 123 Another contribution of the Puerto Rican experience was the accustoming of U.S. industry to offshore operations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1475 |
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