What is the difference between accustom and acclimate?
accustom | acclimate | Synonyms |
(lb) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to .
*ca. 1753 , (John Hawkesworth) et al., Adventurer
*:I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
To be wont.
:(Carew)
To cohabit.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries.
(transitive, chiefly, US) To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.
To adjust to a new environment; not necessarily a wild, natural, earthy one.
To become accustomed to a new climate or environment.