accustoms
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Chief among these techniques is "systematic desensitization," the process a mother uses when she accustoms a baby to the ocean by dipping in one foot first, then a leg, then the infant's whole body.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though it is repetitious and - I am afraid to say - increasingly annoying to listen to, this technique soon accustoms our ears to expect equal weight in a tune’s two halves.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
She accustoms her face to a simper, which every separate feature in it belies.
From Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World by Anonymous
The lady went to look at it, but found it very ugly, and thought to herself that daily habit soon accustoms us to the defects of others.
From Spontaneous Activity in Education by Montessori, Maria
There a boy learns to play fair, accustoms himself to that greatest of social ties, l’esprit du corps.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
