Definition of Accustoming

1. Verb. (present participle of accustom) ¹

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Definition of Accustoming

1. accustom [v] - See also: accustom

Lexicographical Neighbors of Accustoming

accusor
accusors
accusour
accustom
accustomable
accustomably
accustomance
accustomances
accustomarily
accustomary
accustomation
accustomations
accustomed
accustomedly
accustomedness
accustoming (current term)
accustomization
accustomize
accustoms
ace in the hole
ace of aces
ace of clubs
ace of diamonds
ace of hearts
ace of spades
ace up one's sleeve
aceanthrylene
acebrochol
acebutolol
acecainide

Literary usage of Accustoming

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A New Family Encyclopedia; Or Compendium of Universal Knowledge by Charles Augustus Goodrich (1831)
"METHOD OF accustoming ANIMALS TO DRAW. as disorders not unfrequently arise from excess of either temperature ; and they are peculiarly exposed to fevers and ..."

2. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"... obtaining meteorological observations and botanical and zoological collections, accustoming the neighbouring populations to the nature and advantages of ..."

3. Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin by Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1907)
"had a very important effect in accustoming the public to hearing women address other audiences than the assemblages of odd or eccentric people, ..."

4. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1864)
"... was the existence of that loyal and reverential spirit which made the people submit to what any "ther country would have spurned, and, by accustoming ..."

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