Accustomed
[ə'kʌstəmd]
Definition
(adj.) (often followed by `to') in the habit of or adapted to; 'accustomed to doing her own work'; 'I've grown accustomed to her face' .
(adj.) commonly used or practiced; usual; 'his accustomed thoroughness'; 'took his customary morning walk'; 'his habitual comment'; 'with her wonted candor' .
Typist: Wolfgang--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Accustom
(a.) Familiar through use; usual; customary.
(a.) Frequented by customers.
Typist: Stanley
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Usual, habitual, wonted, customary, familiar, common, frequent, regular, ordinary, every day.
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Examples
- The manufacturer has always been accustomed to look for his subsistence from his labour only; the soldier to expect it from his pay. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I see you are accustomed to wearing kid gloves--but some gentlemen are so awkward about putting them on. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He will require to grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world. Plato. The Republic.
- We were growing accustomed to encomiums on wonders that too often proved no wonders at all. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I was accustomed to speak of the larder when I lived with papa and mama, and I use the word almost unconsciously. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- For a long time, though studying and working patiently, I had accustomed myself to robust exercise. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Mr. Chadband, at last seeing his opportunity, makes his accustomed signal and rises with a smoking head, which he dabs with his pocket-handkerchief. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Seems you're not accustomed to this kind of work? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The new cushions are a great improvement upon the hard marble seats we have been so long accustomed to. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I have not been accustomed to language of that kind. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I am not accustomed, sir, he began, but mastered his anger and resumed his seat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He at once threw himself on the astonished combatants, with his accustomed energy, and loudly called upon the bystanders to interpose. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Crispin glanced at Maurice significantly, and Justinian caught the look with his accustomed keen-sightedness. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Since, then, you are accustomed to it-- Robert Jordan said politely. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Gentlemen in his station are not accustomed to marry their governesses. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I am every day growing more accustomed to--fonder of you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As he did so, a small case in which the Doctor was accustomed to carry the lists of his day's duties, fell lightly on the floor. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- You have been accustomed to see him often, I suppose? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I am accustomed to a fire, and I am an old man, and I soon chill. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Accustomed as I was to Holmes's curious faculties, this sudden intrusion into my most intimate thoughts was utterly inexplicable. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I understood her very well, for I had been accustomed to the fluent tongue of Madame Pierrot. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In the effort to hear better, the American Indian was accustomed to place his ear to the ground. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I've always been accustomed to travel like a gentleman, George said, and, damme, my wife shall travel like a lady. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Xodar, Dator of the First Born of Barsoom, is accustomed to give commands, not to receive them, replied the black pirate. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I have not been accustomed to such language as this. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The accustomed places brought back the accustomed habits and trains of thought. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The connoisseur, accustomed to the possession of jewels, finds in its soft luster a grandeur above that of all the sparkling stones. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In my own country I had been accustomed to command. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The daughter of Matai Shang is not accustomed to having her queries remain unanswered, she said. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The gate _A_ is then closed and the gate _A'_ is opened slowly to give the men time to get accustomed to the high pressure in _B_, and then the men are lowered to the bottom. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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