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Custom Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Custom? [n] accepted or habitual practice [n] habitual patronage [n] a specific practice of long standing [n] money collected under a tariff [adj] of clothing Synonyms \| Synonyms for Custom: bespoke \| bespoken \| customised \| customized \| custom-made \| customs \| customs duty \| impost \| made-to-order \| tailored \| tailor-made \| tradition \| usage \| usance Related Terms \| Find terms related to Custom: action \| actions \| activity \| acts \| address \| affectation \| air \| ancient wisdom \| archetypal myth \| archetypal pattern \| assembled \| automatism \| bad habit \| bearing \| behavior \| behavior pattern \| behavioral norm \| behavioral science \| bienseance \| bon ton \| built \| business \| canon \| carriage \| carriage trade \| cast \| characteristic \| civility \| clientage \| clientele \| common law \| comportment \| conduct \| conformity \| constructed \| consuetude \| convenance \| convention \| conventional usage \| conventionalism \| conventionality \| correctness \| crafted \| created \| creature of habit \| culture pattern \| custom-built \| custom-made \| customs \| decency \| decorousness \| decorum \| demeanor \| deportment \| doing \| doings \| dues \| duty \| especially \| etiquette \| excise \| exclusively \| expressly \| extracted \| fabricated \| fashion \| fashioned \| fixture \| folk motif \| folklore \| folktale \| folkway \| force of habit \| forged \| form \| formality \| formed \| gathered \| gestures \| goings-on \| good form \| good name \| goodwill \| grown \| guise \| habit \| habit pattern \| habitude \| handcrafted \| handmade \| harvested \| haute couture \| high fashion \| homemade \| homespun \| immemorial usage \| impost \| institution \| law \| legend \| levy \| lore \| machined \| machine-made \| made \| made to order \| maintien \| man-made \| manner \| manners \| manufactured \| market \| matter of course \| method \| methodology \| methods \| mien \| milled \| mined \| Mishnah \| mode \| modus vivendi \| mold \| molded \| motions \| movements \| moves \| myth \| mythology \| observable behavior \| particularly \| patronage \| pattern \| peculiarity \| poise \| port \| pose \| posture \| practice \| praxis \| precedent \| precept \| prefab \| prefabricated \| prescription \| presence \| prevailing taste \| procedure \| proceeding \| processed \| proper thing \| propriety \| public \| purchasing public \| put together \| racial memory \| raised \| ready-formed \| ready-for-wear \| ready-made \| ready-prepared \| ready-to-wear \| refined \| repute \| ritual \| routine \| rubric \| rule \| rural market \| second nature \| seemliness \| shaped \| smelted \| social convention \| social science \| social usage \| specially \| Spiritus Mundi \| stereotype \| stereotyped behavior \| stream of fashion \| style \| suburban market \| Sunna \| support \| swim \| tactics \| tailor-made \| Talmud \| tariff \| tax \| to order \| toll \| tone \| trade \| tradition \| traditionalism \| traditionality \| traffic \| trend \| trick \| usage \| use \| vogue \| way \| way of life \| ways \| well-built \| well-constructed \| well-made \| wont \| youth market See Also \| Americanism \| Anglicism \| Britishism \| consuetude \| couvade \| duty \| Germanism \| habit \| habit \| institution \| patronage \| pattern \| practice \| practice \| rite \| ritual \| ship money \| tariff \| trade \| use \| wont \| wont Custom In Webster's Dictionary \Cus"tom\ (k[u^]s"t[u^]m), n. [OF. custume, costume, Anglo-Norman coustome, F. coutume, fr. (assumed) LL. consuetumen custom, habit, fr. L. consuetudo, -dinis, fr. consuescere to accustom, verb inchoative fr. consuere to be accustomed; con- + suere to be accustomed, prob. originally, to make one's own, fr. the root of suus one's own; akin to E. so, adv. Cf. {Consuetude}, {Costume}.] 1. Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living. And teach customs which are not lawful. --Acts xvi. 21. Moved beyond his custom, Gama said. --Tennyson. A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. --Shak. 2. Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support. Let him have your custom, but not your votes. --Addison. 3. (Law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See {Usage}, and {Prescription}. Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without custom. --Wharton. 4. Familiar aquaintance; familiarity. [Obs.] Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. --Shak. {Custom of merchants}, a system or code of customs by which affairs of commerce are regulated. {General customs}, those which extend over a state or kingdom. {Particular customs}, those which are limited to a city or district; as, the customs of London. Syn: Practice; fashion. See {Habit}, and {Usage}. \Cus"tom\, v. t. [Cf. OF. costumer. Cf. {Accustom}.] 1. To make familiar; to accustom. [Obs.] --Gray. 2. To supply with customers. [Obs.] --Bacon. \Cus"tom\, v. i. To have a custom. [Obs.] On a bridge he custometh to fight. --Spenser. \Cus"tom\, n. [OF. coustume, F. coutume, tax, i. e., the usual tax. See 1st {Custom}.] 1. The customary toll, tax, or tribute. Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom. --Rom. xiii. 7. 2. pl. Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported. \Cus"tom\, v. t. To pay the customs of. [Obs.] --Marlowe.

Custom Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Custom?

[n] accepted or habitual practice
[n] habitual patronage
[n] a specific practice of long standing
[n] money collected under a tariff
[adj] of clothing

Custom In Webster's Dictionary

\Cus"tom\ (k[u^]s"t[u^]m), n. [OF. custume, costume,
Anglo-Norman coustome, F. coutume, fr. (assumed) LL.
consuetumen custom, habit, fr. L. consuetudo, -dinis, fr.
consuescere to accustom, verb inchoative fr. consuere to be
accustomed; con- + suere to be accustomed, prob. originally,
to make one's own, fr. the root of suus one's own; akin to E.
so, adv. Cf. {Consuetude}, {Costume}.]
1. Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common
   to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method
   of doing or living.

         And teach customs which are not lawful. --Acts xvi.
                                               21.

         Moved beyond his custom, Gama said.   --Tennyson.

         A custom More honored in the breach than the
         observance.                           --Shak.

2. Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a
   shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving
   orders; business support.

         Let him have your custom, but not your votes.
                                               --Addison.

3. (Law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten
   law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See
   {Usage}, and {Prescription}.

Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no
      custom without usage, though there may be usage without
      custom. --Wharton.

4. Familiar aquaintance; familiarity. [Obs.]

         Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her
         infinite variety.                     --Shak.

{Custom of merchants}, a system or code of customs by which
   affairs of commerce are regulated.

{General customs}, those which extend over a state or
   kingdom.

{Particular customs}, those which are limited to a city or
   district; as, the customs of London.

Syn: Practice; fashion. See {Habit}, and {Usage}.


\Cus"tom\, v. t. [Cf. OF. costumer. Cf. {Accustom}.]
1. To make familiar; to accustom. [Obs.] --Gray.

2. To supply with customers. [Obs.] --Bacon.


\Cus"tom\, v. i.
To have a custom. [Obs.]

      On a bridge he custometh to fight.       --Spenser.


\Cus"tom\, n. [OF. coustume, F. coutume, tax, i. e., the
usual tax. See 1st {Custom}.]
1. The customary toll, tax, or tribute.

         Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to
         whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom. --Rom.
                                               xiii. 7.

2. pl. Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities,
   imported or exported.


\Cus"tom\, v. t.
To pay the customs of. [Obs.] --Marlowe.

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