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

Little by little it accustoms itself to them.

From Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 by Castaigne, J. André

The line now assumes in his eyes a very definite meaning; and he accustoms himself to recognize, to interpret and to judge of forms contained by a simple outline.

From Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook by Montessori, Maria

It is the same thing if he accustoms them to Eastern, or Spanish, or any other line.

From A Girl of the Commune by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)