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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.

 

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