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by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; - - with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.

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

According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. Latimer.

Custom; habitual use. [Obs.] Boyle.

Customarily. [Obs.]

Usual; customary. [Archaic] Featley.

Familiar through use; usual; customary. "An accustomed action." Shak.

Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.

To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.

Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; -- which to. Chastened as a bullock unaccustomed to yoke. Jer. xxxi. 18.

To familiarize; to accustom. [Obs.] Evelyn. To be acquainted with, to be possessed of personal knowledge of; to be cognizant of; to be more or less familiar with; to be on terms of social intercourse with.

See Accustomance. [Obs.]

Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places. The priesthood . . . before was very ambulatory, and dispersed into all families. Jer. Taylor.

The act of accustoming, or the state of being accustomed; habituation. [Obs.] Custom and studies efform the soul like wax, and by assuefaction introduce a nature. Jer. Taylor.

Accustomedness; habit; habitual use. Assuetude of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt. Bacon.

A temple of Athene, at Athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to read their works and instruct students.

artly by the cargo. In the clause commonly found in bills of lading, "primage and average accustomed," average means a kind of composition established by usage for such charges, which were formerly assessed by way of average. Arnould. Abbott. Phillips.

One accustomed to bushfighting. Parkman.

One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes. [U.S.] They were gallant bushwhackers, and hunters of raccoons by moonlight. W. Irving.

uct of affairs. Our constitution had begun to exist in times when statesmen were not much accustomed to frame exact definitions. Macaulay.