v. [a. mod. Fr. acclimate-r (Acad. Dict., 1798) f. à to + climat CLIMATE.] To habituate to a new climate; = ACCLIMATIZE, now much more common. lit. and fig.
1792. A. Young, Trav. in France, 296. Kerry, where the arbutus is so ac-climated, that it seems indigenous.
1859. Sat. Rev., 12 Feb., 183/2. The idea of acclimating the eland in England is due to the late Earl of Derby.
1872. O. W. Holmes, Poet at Breakf. T., iii. 75. I have not been long enough at this table to get well acclimated.
