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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Accustumate, -at, ppl. a. Also: accustomat. [e.m.E. accustumat (c 1500); in use in 16th c.]

1. Accustomed. Const. to with inf., or with.1513 Doug. xiii. vii. 83 (accustumate to lyf in peax). 1533 Bell. Livy I. 235/27 (accustumate to be gevin). 1533 Boece I. 22 (accustumate with sic dedis). 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 48 (accustumat to overthraw the small). 1593 Crim. Trials I. ii. 299 (accustumat to hant). 1622-6 Bisset I. 238/32 (accustumate to be directed).

2. Customary, wonted, usual.1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 31 (hir accustumat clemency). 1583 Sempill Sat. P. xlv. 166 (he had a worde accustomat). 1587 Acts III. 447/1 (the auld accustumat vse). 1622-6 Bisset II. 216/25 (the dayis and placis accustumate). 1631 Kinghorn Kirk S. 34 (the accustomat maner).

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