Customary

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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}.]
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     1. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by
        common usage; conventional; habitual.
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              Even now I met him
              With customary compliment.            --Shak.
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              A formal customary attendance upon the offices.
                                                    --South.
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     2. (Law) Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants;
        customary service or estate.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  customary
       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},
           {habitual}, {wonted(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  96 Moby Thesaurus words for "customary":
     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