To accustom or habituate someone to something in advance, before the main event.
Combines 'fore-' (before) with 'accustom' (from Old French 'acoustumer'). This means to prepare someone's habits ahead of time.
Parents in the 1600s would 'foreaccustom' children to hardship or cold weather by gradually introducing them to it—not out of cruelty but from a theory that advance habituation made people tougher and more resilient.
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