Associations to the word «Accustom»

Wiktionary

ACCUSTOM, verb. (transitive) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.
ACCUSTOM, verb. (intransitive) (obsolete) To be wont.
ACCUSTOM, verb. (intransitive) (obsolete) To cohabit.
ACCUSTOM, noun. (obsolete) Custom.

Dictionary definition

ACCUSTOM, verb. Make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats