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accustomed
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Candide
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- 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
Definitions:
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(accustom) to make someone used to something
(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. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)