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Customary   /kˈəstəmˌɛri/   Listen
adjective
Customary  adj.  
1.
Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. "Even now I met him With customary compliment." "A formal customary attendance upon the offices."
2.
(Law) Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.


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





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... It was customary among good troops to have a clash, but not the blind and headlong onset of the mass; the preoccupation [23] of the rank was very great, as the behavior of Caesar's troops at Pharsalus shows in their slow march, timed by the flutes of Lacedaemonian ...
— Battle Studies • Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq
... be able to penetrate. Grapes thus packed will keep for a twelvemonth. To restore their freshness, cut the end of each bunch, and put that of white grapes into white wine, and that of black grapes into red wine, as flowers are put into water to keep them fresh. It is customary in France to pack grapes for the London market in saw dust, but it must be carefully dried with a gentle heat, or the turpentine and other odours of the wood will not fail to injure the fruit. Oak saw dust will answer ...
— The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, • Mary Eaton
... had changed immensely in mere physical appearance, and the full brown cheeks, the brighter eyes of absolute health, and the general air of vigour and robustness that had come to replace his customary lassitude and timidity, had worked such an improvement that I hardly knew him for the same man. His voice, too, was deeper and his manner bespoke for the first time a greater measure of confidence in himself. He now had ...
— Three More John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood
... Tahiti, according to Cook, it was customary to "gratify every appetite and passion before witnesses," and it is added, "in the conversation of these people, that which is the principal source of their pleasure is always the principal topic; everything ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... customary, your Highness. If we permitted this on the part of the people, the gardens would be ...
— The Goose Girl • Harold MacGrath


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