What is the difference between habituate and accustom?
habituate | accustom |
To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.
* Sir K. Digby
* Tillotson
To settle as an inhabitant.
(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.
Accustom is a synonym of habituate.
As verbs the difference between habituate and accustom
is that habituate is to make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize while accustom is to make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.As a noun accustom is
custom.habituate
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Verb
(habituat)- our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime
- Men are first corrupted and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices.
