ppl. a. [f. ACCUSTOM v. + -ED.] The pple. has all the const. of the vb.
1. Made customary, practised habitually; wonted, used; customary, habitual, usual.
1483. Caxton, G. de la Tour, a i b. They had neyther drede ne shame, so moche were they endurate and acustomed. Ibid. (1483), Gold. Leg., 258/1. He sent an Aungel acustomed whiche shewed to her to fore the demonstraunce of hir departyng.
1585. Abp. Sandys, Serm. (1841), 349. He left them to be devoured with pestilence, with hunger, and with the sword, the accustomed instruments of his wrath.
1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., III. v. 4. The common executioner Whose heart th’ accustom’d sight of death makes hard.
1684. Bunyan, Pilgrim, II. 75. They had prepared for them a Lamb, with the accustomed Sauce belonging thereto.
1776. Gibbon, Decl. & F., I. 341. He used the victory with his accustomed moderation.
1819. Shelley, Ros. & Helen, 142. The accustomed nightingale still broods On her accustomed bough.
1875. Miss Braddon, Josh. Hagg. Dau., II. 28. They had both grown accustomed to the half light of the wood by this time, and saw each other’s faces very clearly.
† 2. Frequented by customers. Obs.
1690. Lond. Gaz., mmdcxi. 4. The Bull-Inn in Fenny-Stratford … a well Accustomed Inn, is to be Lett ready Furnished.
1761. Smollett, Gil Blas (1802), I. II. vii. 171. There I got a place … in a well accustomed shop, much frequented on account of the neighbourhood of the church.
1772. Graves, Spiritual Quixote, IX. vi. (D.). [He] observed to my landlord that his seemed to be a well-accustomed house.
