Obs.; also ac(c)ustumaunce. [a. OFr. acostumance, acoustumaunce, acc-, f. acostumer: see ACCUSTOM and -ANCE.] Customary use or practice; custom, habit.
c. 1384. Chaucer, Hous of Fame, 28. Or ellis by dysordynaunce Of naturell acustumaunce [v.r. accustumaunce, accustomaunce, accustomance].
1483. Caxton, Cato, b iij b. Oftentymes they inclyne or bowen to such playes by acustumance.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 1213. Exercise and accustomance to sobriety, temperance and continency.
1660. Boyle, New Exp. Phys.-Mech., Digr. 375. By accustomance, some Men may bring themselves to support the want of Air a pretty while. Ibid. (1690), Chr. Virtuoso, I. 103. An Accustomance of endeavouring to give Clear Explications of the Phænomena of Nature.
