acclimate, v.
(əˈklaɪmət)
[a. mod.Fr. acclimate-r (Acad. Dict. 1798) f. à to + climat climate.]
1. To habituate to a new climate; = acclimatize, now much more common. lit. and fig. Now chiefly U.S.
| 1792 A. Young Trav. in France 296 Kerry, where the arbutus is so ac-climated, that it seems indigenous. 1859 Sat. Rev. 12 Feb. 183/2 The idea of acclimating the eland in England is due to the late Earl of Derby. 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakf. T. iii. 75, I have not been long enough at this table to get well acclimated. 1934 F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is Night ii. viii. 196 ‘I'll drop in after dinner,’ Dick promised. ‘First I must get acclimated.’ 1937 S. W. Cheney World Hist. Art (1938) xiii. 400 The Byzantine style, which had been acclimated there during the rule of the Western exarchs. |
2. intr. = acclimatize v. 2.
| 1861 Winthrop C. Dreeme 174 Until I acclimate to the atmosphere of work. 1864 Good Words 228/2 They..acclimated easily, and they prospered. |