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# accustomed

adjective (accustomed); used mostly in "accustomed to"

«accustomed» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Used to something, so it feels normal because you have met it often. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accustomed/#m1)
2. (formal) Usual, regular, as in "her accustomed seat". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accustomed/#m2)

### In the lessons

In stories it shows how a character got used to a new place, food or routine: she grew accustomed to the cold. Phrases: be accustomed to, get/become/grow accustomed to, accustomed to doing.

### Examples

- My eyes grew accustomed to the dark. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accustomed/#x1)
- He was not accustomed to getting up so early. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accustomed/#x2)
- After a month we became accustomed to the new school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accustomed/#x3)
- She sat in her accustomed place by the window. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accustomed/#x4)
- Cats get accustomed to a new home slowly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accustomed/#x5)
- I am accustomed to walking to school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accustomed/#x6)
- "I am accustomed to better things," said the beetle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accustomed/#x7)

### Note

After "accustomed to" use a noun or -ing form: accustomed to waking, not "accustomed to wake" (mostly). Everyday synonym: used to. Spelling: double c. More formal than "used to".

## In Jewish tradition

Here it means being used to something so deeply that it is hard to change.

**Interpretation.** The verse asks if a Cushite can change his skin; tradition reads it as showing how habit of sin makes repentance hard, though never impossible.

### Examples

- Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. (Prophets JER.13.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/accustomed/#x1)

### Note

After "accustomed to" use a noun or -ing form: accustomed to waking, not "accustomed to wake" (mostly). Everyday synonym: used to. Spelling: double c. More formal than "used to".

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «accustomed» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accustomed/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«accustomed» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/accustomed.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «accustomed» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/accustomed/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«accustomed» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/accustomed.html) on Mova free.