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Accustomed

adjective

(often followed by 'to') in the habit of or adapted to. "I've grown accustomed to her face"

Commonly used or practiced; usual. Synonyms: customary, habitual, wonted. "Took his customary morning walk" , "His habitual comment" , "With her wonted candor"

Accustom

verb

(past & past part. accustomed; pres. part. accustoming)

Make psychologically or physically used (to something). Synonym: habituate.

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"Accustomed" Quotes from Famous Books

... not know it, but he had travelled a long way on the road towards an entire oblivion of Fay when he came to Rome. But the one great precaution against her he had not taken. He had not replaced her, and "Only that which is replaced is destroyed." He had grown accustomed to ...

— Prisoners - Fast Bound In Misery And Iron • Mary Cholmondeley

... "to pronounce too strongly against Natural Selection." I am sorry to have bothered you, though I have been much interested by your note in answer. I wrote the sentence without reflection. But the truth is, that I have so accustomed myself, partly from being quizzed by my non-naturalist relations, to expect opposition and even contempt, that I forgot for the moment that you are the one living soul from whom I have constantly received sympathy. Believe [me] that I never forget for ...

— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I • Francis Darwin

... it was simply the transference to the tool itself of the decorative work then demanded of the wood craftsmen. Or was it mainly a compulsion to dress, with little effort, a lackluster material that seemed stark and cold to Victorians accustomed to the ornateness being achieved elsewhere with the jigsaw and wood? Whatever the cause, the result did not persist long as a guide to hand-tool design. Instead, the strong, plain lines that had evolved over two centuries won universal endorsement ...

— Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 • Peter C. Welsh

... every one was as happy as it was possible to be. The country had grown so accustomed to being frivolous that it never became serious again; and the King never made another law, because the people were so fond of Lady Whimsical that they did everything she told them, and therefore no laws were needed. The result of all this ...

— All the Way to Fairyland - Fairy Stories • Evelyn Sharp

... burned, luckily, though Mr. Arnold had fired the town; and thither the undaunted old lady proceeded, surrounded by her people, and never swerving in her loyalty, in spite of her ill-usage. "The Esmonds," she said, "were accustomed ...

— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray

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