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Webster 1913 Edition


Customary

Cus′tom-a-ry

(kŭs′tŭm-ā̍-ry̆)
,
Adj.
[CF. OF.
coustumier
, F.
coutumier
. See
Custom
, and cf.
Customer
.]
1.
Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
Even now I met him
With
customary
compliment.
Shakespeare
A formal
customary
attendance upon the offices.
South.
2.
(Law)
Holding or held by custom;
as,
customary
tenants;
customary
service or estate
.

Cus′tom-a-ry

,
Noun.
[OF.
coustumier
, F.
coutumier
.]
A book containing laws and usages, or customs;
as, the
Customary
of the Normans
.
Cowell.

Webster 1828 Edition


Customary

CUSTOMARY

,
Adj.
1.
According to custom, or to established or common usage; as a customary dress; customary compliments.
2.
Habitual; in common practice; as customary vices.
3.
Holding by custom; as customary tenants, who are copyholders.
4.
Held by custom; as a customary freehold.

CUSTOMARY

,
Noun.
A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as the customary of the Normans.

Definition 2024


customary

customary

English

Noun

customary (plural customaries)

  1. A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.

Translations

Adjective

customary (comparative more customary, superlative most customary)

  1. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
    • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, chapter III:
      At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. [] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  2. Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.
    • 1777, Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland
      The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.

Quotations

  • 1956Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p 39
    When two people met for the first time in Diaspar—or even for the hundredth—it was customary to spend an hour or so in an exchange or courtesies before getting down to business, if any.

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