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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Commonly used or practiced; usual
Example:
with her wonted candor
Synonyms:
accustomed; customary; habitual; wonted
Classified under:
Similar:
usual (occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb accustom
Context examples:
She was frightened by the earnestness of his manner, and ran past him to the window through which she was accustomed to hand the meals.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He crooked the arm next to her—crooked it very slightly and with secret tentativeness, not invitingly, but just casually, as though he was accustomed to walk that way.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The tidy basket, with the bit of work she left unfinished when the needle grew 'so heavy', was still on its accustomed shelf.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But gods are accustomed to being obeyed, and Grey Beaver wrathfully launched a canoe in pursuit.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
First, then, tell me what you have been accustomed to do, and what you can do.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They were viewing the country with the eyes of persons accustomed to drawing, and decided on its capability of being formed into pictures, with all the eagerness of real taste.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Certainly I had been accustomed to every luxury at Maple Grove; but I did assure him that two carriages were not necessary to my happiness, nor were spacious apartments.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I have not been accustomed to such language as this.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I was equally confounded at the sight of so many pigmies, for such I took them to be, after having so long accustomed mine eyes to the monstrous objects I had left.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The physiological process through which an organism grows accustomed to a new environment.
(Acclimatization, NCI Thesaurus)
