Definition of Customaries

1. Noun. (plural of customary) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Customaries

1. customary [n] - See also: customary

Lexicographical Neighbors of Customaries

custodiers
custodies
custody
custody battle
custody case
custom
custom-built
custom-made
custom-make
custom house
custom houses
custom made
customable
customableness
customably
customaries (current term)
customarily
customariness
customarinesses
customary
customary unit
customed
customer
customer's broker
customer's man
customer agent
customer base
customer bases
customer service
customerless

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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