Word Meanings - FAMILIARIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress. 2. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self
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1. To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress. 2. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self with a business, a book, or a science.
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- ACCUSTOMARILY
Customarily. - ACCUSTOMEDNESS
Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce. - TRAIN
1. That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. "Now to my charms, and to my wily trains." Milton. 2. Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare. Halliwell. With - TRAINING
The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training - TRAINABLE
Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson. - ACCUSTOMABLE
Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer. - RECONCILE
1. To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled. Propitious now and reconciled by prayer. Dryden. We pray - TRAINER
1. One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength. 2. A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. Bartlett. - HABITUATE
1. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. Our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime. Sir K. Digby. Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices. Tillotson. 2. To settle as an - TRAIN DISPATCHER
An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right of way. - TRAINBEARER
One who holds up a train, as of a robe. - ACCUSTOMABLY
According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. Latimer. - TRAINY
Belonging to train oil. Gay. - ACCUSTOMARY
Usual; customary. Featley. - TRAIN OIL
Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling. - FAMILIARIZE
1. To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress. 2. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self - RECONCILEMENT
Reconciliation. Milton. - INUREMENT
Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom. - TRAINBAND
A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; -- afterwards applied to the London militia. He felt that, without some better protection than that of the trainbands and Beefeaters, his palace - RECONCILER
One who reconciles. - STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - DISTRAINER
See DISTRAINOR - HALF-STRAINED
Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden. - UPTRAIN
To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser. - CORRIDOR TRAIN
A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open. - STRAINING
from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post. - CONSTRAINTIVE
Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew. - DISACCUSTOM
To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson. - IRRECONCILEMENT
The state or quality of being unreconciled; disagreement. - RESTRAINEDLY
With restraint. Hammond. - SUPERSTRAIN
To overstrain. Bacon. - DETRAIN
To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train. London Graphic. - UNSTRAINED
1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill. - QUENOUILLE TRAINING
A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.