accustom
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Is accustom a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, often passive voice or reflexive, with to) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure.Examples: "Early exposure to pet allergens and pet-related bacteria accustoms the body to allergens."; "I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater."; "“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”"transitive
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be wont.Examples: "all of them accustoming , once in the year , to take their kind of the fresh water"intransitiveobsolete
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit.Examples: "Much better do we Britans fulfill the work of Nature than you Romans; we with the beſt men accuſtom op'nly; you with the baſest commit private adulteries."intransitiveobsolete
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Custom.obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary