accustomed
/əˈkʌs.təmd/ adjective C1- Familiar with something through repeated experience; adapted to existing conditions. (of a person) · I am not accustomed to walk(ing) long distances.· She is getting more and more accustomed to the cold.
- Familiar through use; usual; customary. (of a thing, condition, activity, etc.)
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“I will do the work as usual, then,” said the young lady, “until some one comes to fill the place.” And she went to her desk at once and hung the black turban hat with the gold-green macaw wing in its accustomed place.
A Wolf accustomed to moving his own cubs can, if necessary, mouth an egg without breaking it, and though Father Wolf’s jaws closed right on the child’s back not a tooth even scratched the skin as he laid it down among the cubs.
It settled the matter; and they pursued the accustomed circuit; which brought them again, after some time, in a descent among hanging woods, to the edge of the water, and one of its narrowest parts.
I have not been accustomed to such language as this.
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