Definition of "accustomed"

And ther fore men ought not to helpe them whiche ben acustomed to doo euylle

1484, William Caxton (translator), The Book of the Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope, “The v fable is of the Foxe and of the busshe,”

Such things as we haue beene long accustomed to, though they be evill in their owne nature; yet they are lesse offensiue.

1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, Partition 1, Section 2, Member 2, Subsection 3, p. 99

“Miss Bennet, do you know who I am? I have not been accustomed to such language as this.”

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 14, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […]

Young Overton’s face assumed the bothered look of the man who is more accustomed to using his muscles than his wits […]

1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Missing Three-Quarter”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes‎, New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., published 1905, page 294

None of the Victorian mothers—and most of the mothers were Victorian—had any idea how casually their daughters were accustomed to be kissed.

1920 April, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “Chapter 2”, in This Side of Paradise, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, book I (The Romantic Egotist), page 64

It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands: I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene v]

Molly had no sooner apparelled herself in her accustomed Rags, than her Sisters began to fall violently upon her […]

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 9, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], book 4, page 170

Who now shall lead thy scatter’d children forth, / And long-accustom’d bondage uncreate?

1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 2, Stanza 72, in The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Boston: Cummings & Hilliard, 1814, Volume I, p. 249

I am uneasy at heart when I have to leave my accustomed shelter; I forget that there abides the old in the new, and that there also thou abidest.

1912, Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, London: The India Society, Section 63, p. 37

There I got a place on the same terms as at Segovia, in a well accustomed shop, much frequented on account of the neighbourhood of the church of Santa Cruz, and the Prince’s theatre […]

1778, Tobias Smollett (translator), The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane by Alain-René Lesage, London: S. Crowder et al., Volume I, Chapter 7, p. 148

The pompous hotel is a lone cottage of very mean appearance, on the road side, and I will be sworn, was but an ill-accustomed Inn, until those renowned Generals justly gave it a licence.

1817, Seth William Stevenson, Journal of a Tour through Part of France, Flanders, and Holland, Norwich: for the author, Chapter 21, p. 283