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accustomed

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adj/əˈkʌs.təmd/
  1. 1

    Familiar with something through repeated experience; adapted to existing conditions. (of a person)

    • I am not accustomed to walk(ing) long distances.
    • She is getting more and more accustomed to the cold.
  2. 2

    Familiar through use; usual; customary. (of a thing, condition, activity, etc.)

    • 1912, Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, London: The India Society, Section 63, p. 37, I am uneasy at heart when I have to leave my accustomed shelter; I forget that there abides the old in the new, and that there also thou abidest.
  3. 3

    Frequented by customers.archaic

    • 1778, Tobias Smollett (translator), The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane by Alain-René Lesage, London: S. Crowder et al., Volume I, Chapter 7, p. 148, There I got a place on the same terms as at Segovia, in a well accustomed shop, much
    • 1817, Seth William Stevenson), Journal of a Tour through Part of France, Flanders, and Holland, Norwich: for the author, Chapter 21, p. 283, The pompous hotel is a lone cottage of very mean appearance, on the road side, and I will be sworn,
verb/əˈkʌs.təmd/
  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of accustomform-ofparticiplepast

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