accustomed

comparative more accustomed · superlative most accustomed

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

   I am not accustomed to walk(ing) long distances.

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   She is getting more and more accustomed to the cold.

   1484, William Caxton (translator), The Book of the Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope, “The v fable is of the Foxe and of the busshe,” And ther fore men ought not to helpe them whiche ben acustomed to doo euylle

   1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, Partition 1, Section 2, Member 2, Subsection 3, p. 99, Such things as we haue beene long accustomed to, though they be evill in their owne nature; yet they are lesse offensiue.

   “Miss Bennet, do you know who I am? I have not been accustomed to such language as this.”

   1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 14, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC

   Young Overton’s face assumed the bothered look of the man who is more accustomed to using his muscles than his wits […]

   1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Missing Three-Quarter”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., published 1905, page 294

   Synonyms: habituated, inured, used, wonted

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.

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   It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands: I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour.

   c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]

   Molly had no sooner apparelled herself in her accustomed Rags, than her Sisters began to fall violently upon her […]

   1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 9, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 170

   1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 2, Stanza 72, in The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Boston: Cummings & Hilliard, 1814, Volume I, p. 249, Who now shall lead thy scatter’d children forth, And long-accustom’d bondage uncreate?

   The raid, directed as usual by vice squad Sgt. Edward McNelley and featuring the accustomed assortment of vice officers, […]

   1983 April 30, Larry Goldsmith, “Yes, Loft Raided Again, Club Officers Charged”, in Gay Community News, page 1

3. archaicFrequented by customers.

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   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 frequented on account of the neighbourhood of the church of Santa Cruz, and the Prince’s theatre […]

   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, was but an ill-accustomed Inn, until those renowned Generals justly gave it a licence.

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of accustom