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Webster 1913 Edition


Unaccustomed

Unˊac-cus′tomed

,
Adj.
1.
Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; – with
to
.
Chastened as a bullock
unaccustomed
to the yoke.
Jer. xxxi. 18.
2.
Not usual; uncommon; strange; new.
What
unaccustomed
cause procures her hither?
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Unaccustomed

UNACCUS'TOMED

, a.
1.
Not accustomed; not used; not made familiar; not habituated; as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Jer. 31.
2.
New; not usual; not made familiar; as unaccustomed air; unaccustomed ideas.

Definition 2024


unaccustomed

unaccustomed

English

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unaccustomed (comparative more unaccustomed, superlative most unaccustomed)

  1. Not prepared by life experience to an event or thing, not accustomed.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess:
      He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him [] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.
    He is unaccustomed to the cold.

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