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Customary definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: in accordance with convention or custom; "sealed the deal with the customary handshake"
2: commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor" [syn: accustomed, customary, habitual, wonted]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1535 1. based on or established by custom 2. commonly practiced, used, or observed Synonyms: see usual • customarily adverb • customariness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 usual; in accordance with custom. 2 Law in accordance with custom. --n. (pl. -ies) Law a book etc. listing the customs and established practices of a community. Derivatives: customarily adv. customariness n. Etymology: med.L custumarius f. custuma f. AF custume (as CUSTOM)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Customary Cus"tom*a*ry (k[u^]s"t[u^]m*[asl]*r[y^]), a. [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. --Shak. A formal customary attendance upon the offices. --South. 2. (Law) Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Customary Cus"tom*a*ry, n. [OF. coustumier, F. coutumier.] A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans. --Cowell.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances. (FORMAL) It is customary to offer a drink or a snack to guests... = usual ADJ: oft it v-link ADJ to-inf 2. Customary is used to describe something that a particular person usually does or has. Yvonne took her customary seat behind her desk. = usual ADJ: ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Usual, common, wonted, habitual, accustomed, conventional, consuetudinary.

Moby Thesaurus

Christian, accepted, accustomed, acknowledged, admitted, approved, authentic, authoritative, average, being done, canonical, chronic, comme il faut, common, commonplace, conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, correct, current, de rigueur, decent, decorous, established, evangelical, everyday, faithful, familiar, firm, fixed, folk, formal, frequent, general, generally accepted, habitual, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoary, household, immemorial, inveterate, legendary, literal, long-established, long-standing, meet, mythological, normal, normative, obtaining, of long standing, of the faith, of the folk, oral, ordinary, orthodox, orthodoxical, popular, predominating, prescribed, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, proper, received, recognized, regular, regulation, right, rooted, routine, scriptural, seemly, set, sound, standard, stipulated, stock, textual, time-honored, traditional, traditionalistic, tried and true, true, true-blue, understood, universal, unwritten, usual, venerable, vernacular, widespread, wonted, worshipful