All 3 Uses of
accustomed
in
Candide
- If we do not accustom ourselves to eating them, it is because we have better fare.†
Chpt 16 *accustom = to make someone used to something
- When the fit was over: "Gentlemen," said the landlord, "it is plain you are strangers, and such guests we are not accustomed to see; pardon us therefore for laughing when you offered us the pebbles from our highroads in payment of your reckoning.†
Chpt 17accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- The executioner of the Holy Inquisition was a sub-deacon, and knew how to burn people marvellously well, but he was not accustomed to hanging.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
to make someone used to something
(used to is an expression that means someone has adapted to something, so it does not seem unusual)
(used to is an expression that means someone has adapted to something, so it does not seem unusual)
In professional environments, you may make a better impression by saying one is accustomed to something rather than one is used to something.