accustomed

adjectif

1. 1

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

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

   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.

2. 2

   Familiar through use; usual; customary. (of a thing, condition, activity, etc.)

   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.

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

   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?

   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.

3. 3

   archaïqueFrequented by customers.

   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.

verbe

1. 1

   Aussi une forme de accustomsimple past and past participle of accustom

Formes

comparatif

more accustomed

superlatif

most accustomed