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Dwelling. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used. "As he was wont to go." Chaucer. If the ox were wont to push with his horn. Ex. xxi. 29.

Accustomed; customary; usual. Again his wonted weapon proved. Spenser. Like an old piece of furniture left alone in its wonted corner. Sir W. Scott. She was wonted to the place, and would not remove. L'Estrange.

The quality or state of being accustomed. [R.] Eikon Basilike.

Unaccustomed. [Obs.] Spenser.

To fill with wonder. [Obs.]

To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Overlabored; exhausted; worn out. [Obs.] Spenser.

To divest of the quality of wonder or mystery; to interpret; to explain. [R.] Fuller.

Unwonted; unused; unaccustomed. [Archaic] Sir W. Scott.

Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as, a child unwonted to strangers. Milton.

To be wont. [Obs.] Carew.

Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer.

Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous. [Obs.] In man there is nothing admirable but his ignorance and weakness. Jer. Taylor.

The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.

Wonder; astonishment. [Obs.] Season your admiration for a while. Shak.

Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder. [R.] Earle.

To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at. [Archaic] Examples rather to be admired than imitated. Fuller.

Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.

ousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior. Affability is of a wonderful efficacy or power in procuring love. Elyot