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Definition of Customaries
1. customary [n] - See also: customary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Customaries
Literary usage of Customaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Classified List of Printed Original Materials for English Manorial and by Frances Gardiner Davenport (1894)
"Rentals and Customaries. Their Latin titles read somewhat as follows ...
Customaries seem to have been written in English for some time before Latin ceased ..."
2. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1897)
"Since these customaries deal with manorial estates in eight shires, ... It is,
therefore, to be expected that the larger part of the customaries should be ..."
3. The Preservation of Open Spaces, and of Footpaths and Other Rights of Way by Robert Hunter (1902)
"According to these documents, the rights were enjoyed by a large class of persons
known as " customaries " or " customers." Some of these held their lands ..."
4. Court Life Under the Plantagenets: Reign of Henry the Second by Hubert Hall (1890)
"The 6 greater customaries also performed 6 ... As all these are spoken of as
customaries, women and children must have been largely employed in harvest-work ..."
5. Bushido, the Soul of Japan: An Exposition of Japanese Thought by Inazō Nitobe (1905)
"... when its customaries will have been buried and its very name forgotten, its
odours will come floating in the air as from a far-off, unseen hill, ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... civil and canon law, able to spell out the old customaries, take the place of
grim warriors. The Planta Regis or cas royaux get extended and simplified. ..."
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