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

I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

This hinders our will from assenting to good; and stirs it to ill so that it may not work good, unless grace helps and accustoms him away from sin.

From The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises by Hodgson, Geraldine Emma

Whoever, therefore, undervalues this National Union, whoever depreciates it, whoever accustoms himself to consider how the people might get on without it, appears to me to encourage sentiments subversive of the foundations of our prosperity.

From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Webster, Daniel