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Definition of Customary

1. Adjective. In accordance with convention or custom. "Sealed the deal with the customary handshake"

2. Adjective. Commonly used or practiced; usual. "With her wonted candor"

Definition of Customary

1. a. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.

2. n. A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans.

Definition of Customary

1. Noun. A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal. ¹

2. Adjective. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. ¹

3. Adjective. Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Customary

1. [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Customary

custody case custom custom-built custom-made custom-make custom house custom houses custom made customable customableness

customably customaries customarily customariness customarinesses customary (current term) customary unit customed customer customer's broker

customer's man customer agent customer base customer bases customer service customerless customers customership customhouse customhouses

Literary usage of Customary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"Such customary estates, which are peculiar to the north of England, are not freehold, but seem to fall under the same general consideration as ..."

2. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl Lotus Becker (1907)
"customary regulations protected the interests of master and workman and the rights ... Employers inclined to continue customary conditions had to meet the ..."

3. Smithsonian Physical Tables by Smithsonian Institution, Thomas Gray (1896)
"(I) customary TO METRIC. The only authorized material standard of customary length is the Troughton scale belonging to the United States Office of ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"... but his quotation relative to the customary form of summons in the reign of Stephen does not prove that the ecclesiastical title and the barony had been ..."

5. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"... and a three-cornered hat under his arm, gave utterance, with a bow, to the customary words: "Messieurs, when it shall be your pleasure. ..."

6. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Alienation of copyhold and customary estates.—We are next to consider assurances by special custom, obtaining only in particular places, and relative only ..."

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