wont

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   One's habitual way of doing things

   One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice.

   • He awoke at the crack of dawn, as was his wont.
   • [T]hey [Spartan youth] are by a ſudden alarum or watch-word, to be called out to their military motions, under ſky or covert, according to the ſeaſon, as was the Roman wont; […]
   • […]when Sindbad the Seaman had related the history of what befel him in his sixth voyage, and all the company had dispersed, Sindbad the Landsman went home and slept as of wont.
2. 2

   Accustomed or used (to or with a thing), accustomed or apt (to do something).

   • He is wont to complain loudly about his job.
   • This is the ſuteltie of Satan, who vnder the shew of godly matters, deceaueth the vnaduyſed, as we are wont to ſay, that in the honye lyeth hidden the poiſon.
   • […] I haue not that Alacrity of Spirit, / Nor cheere of Minde that I was wont to haue.
3. 3

   To make (someone) used to

   To make (someone) used to; to accustom.

   • I have heard it remarked by the old farmers, that when beasts are first transferred from one place to another, that if they keep them without food for two or three days, it will go far towards wonting them to their new situation.
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   1. 4

      To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something).

      • What be the ſweet delights of learning a treaſure, / That wont with Comick ſock to beautify / The painted Theaters, and fill with pleaſure / The liſtners eyes, and eares with melodie; […]
      • But by record of antique times I finde / That wemen wont in warres to beare most ſway, / And to all great exploites them ſelues inclind: […]

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