accustomed

Etymology

accustom + -ed

adj

1. (of a person) Familiar with something through repeated experience; adapted to existing conditions.
   I am not accustomed to walking 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.
   Young Overton’s face assumed the bothered look of the man who is more accustomed to using his muscles than his wits […] 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Missing Three-Quarter”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., published 1905, page 294
2. (of a thing, condition, activity, etc.) Familiar through use; usual; customary.
   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. (archaic) Frequented 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.

verb

1. simple past and past participle of accustom