vbl. sb. [f. ACCUSTOM v. + -ING1.]
† 1. The action of making oneself familiar with, using, practising, consorting. Obs.
1567. Maplet, Greene Forest, 25. Brought to it by evill accustoming, [thou] giuest consent, and, so wonne, dost becken at it.
1599. Sandys, Europæ Spec. (1632), 235. Their people with small accostoming understand the Liturgies well enough.
1643. Milton, Divorce (1851), iii. 27. They who have liv’d most loosely by reason of their bold accustoming, prove most succesfull in their matches.
2. The action of habituating or familiarizing. Now always gerundial.
1617. Hieron, Wks., II. 340. Now the accustoming of the tongue to euill speech is like the poysoning of the well.
Mod. By accustoming one’s eyes gradually to the light.
