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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. |
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