v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Accustomed p. pr. & vb. n. Accustoming. ] [ OF. acostumer, acustumer, F. accoutumer; à (L. ad) + OF. costume, F. coutume, custom. See Custom. ] To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To habituate; inure; exercise; train. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be wont. [ Obs. ] Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cohabit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Custom. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Habitual; customary; wonted. “Accustomable goodness.” Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. accoustumance, F. accoutumance. ] Custom; habitual use. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Customarily. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Usual; customary. [ Archaic ] Featley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Familiar through use; usual; customary. “An accustomed action.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Frequented by customers. [ Obs. ] “A well accustomed shop.” Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Habituation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To have a custom. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

On a bridge he custometh to fight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. custume, costume, Anglo-Norman coustome, F. coutume, fr. (assumed) LL. consuetumen custom, habit, fr. L. consuetudo, -dinis, fr. consuescere to accustom, verb inchoative fr. consuere to be accustomed; con- + suere to be accustomed, prob. originally, to make one's own, fr. the root of suus one's own; akin to E. so, adv. Cf. Consuetude, Costume. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living. [ 1913 Webster ]

And teach customs which are not lawful. Acts xvi. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

Moved beyond his custom, Gama said. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

A custom
More honored in the breach than the observance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let him have your custom, but not your votes. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without custom. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Familiar aquaintance; familiarity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Age can not wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Custom of merchants, a system or code of customs by which affairs of commerce are regulated. --
General customs, those which extend over a state or kingdom. --
Particular customs, those which are limited to a city or district; as, the customs of London.

Syn. -- Practice; fashion. See Habit, and Usage. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. OF. costumer. Cf. Accustom. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To make familiar; to accustom. [ Obs. ] Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To supply with customers. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. coustume, F. coutume, tax, i. e., the usual tax. See 1st Custom. ] 1. The customary toll, tax, or tribute. [ 1913 Webster ]

Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom. Rom. xiii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To pay the customs of. [ Obs. ] Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. coustumable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Customary. [ Obs. ] Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being customable; conformity to custom. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Usually. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a customary manner; habitually. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being customary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ CF. OF. coustumier, F. coutumier. See Custom, and cf. Customer. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even now I met him
With customary compliment. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A formal customary attendance upon the offices. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. coustumier, F. coutumier. ] A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A doublet of customary, a.: cf. LL. custumarius toll gatherer. See Custom. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

He has got at last the character of a good customer; by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank. J. A. H. Murray. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer. [ Colloq. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A lewd woman. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. [ 1913 Webster ]

Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. to make to specifications.
Syn. -- custom-make, taylor-make. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to make according to requirements.
Syn. -- customise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. made specially for a specific purpose; -- of articles of manufacture. Contrasted with mass-produced, standardized.
Syn. -- made-to-order. [ PJC WordNet 1.5 ]

2. made or tailored to fit a specific person; -- of clothing. Contrasted with off-the-rack, ready-to-wear. a custom-made suit
Syn. -- made-to-order. [ PJC ]

n. pl. 1. money collected under a tariff; a duty imposed on imported goods.
Syn. -- customs duty, custom, impost. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the government department administering the collection of import tariffs. Used with as singular verb. [ PJC ]

3. that area within an airport, sea port, or other border station where freight or the baggage of travellers is checked for dutiable materials or contraband; as, it took an hour to get through customs. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. désaccoutumer. ] To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; -- with to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chastened as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Jer. xxxi. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not usual; uncommon; strange; new. [ 1913 Webster ]

What unaccustomed cause procures her hither? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not customable, or subject to customs duties. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Uncustomable; also, not having paid duty or customs. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

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