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Custom   /kˈəstəm/   Listen
noun
Custom  n.  
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." "Moved beyond his custom, Gama said." "A custom More honored in the breach than the observance."
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."
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.
4.
Familiar aquaintance; familiarity. (Obs.) "Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety."
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.
Synonyms: Practice; fashion. See Habit, and Usage.


Custom  n.  
1.
The customary toll, tax, or tribute. "Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom."
2.
pl. Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.


verb
Custom  v. t.  
1.
To make familiar; to accustom. (Obs.)
2.
To supply with customers. (Obs.)


Custom  v. t.  To pay the customs of. (Obs.)


Custom  v. i.  To have a custom. (Obs.) "On a bridge he custometh to fight."





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... is said of the Russian General Skobelef, that he had a strange custom of going into battle in his cleanest uniform, perfumed, and wearing a diamond-hilted sword, "in order that," as he said, "he might die in his ...
— Anabasis • Xenophon
... intestate are distributed analogous to the custom of gavelkind in Kent. The heir at law of such intestate shall be entitled to and receive a double portion or two shares of the real estate left by such intestate, (saving the widow's right of dower.) The remander to be equally distributed among all the children or their legal ...
— First History of New Brunswick • Peter Fisher
... to enthusiasm, and work themselves into a disposition that borders on madness; for, suddenly jumping up, they snatch fire-brands from the fire, put them in their mouths, and run about burning every body they come near; at other times it is a custom with them to wound one another with sharp mussel- shells till they are besmeared with blood. These orgies continue till these who preside in them foam at the mouth, grow faint, are exhausted with fatigue, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 • Robert Kerr
... say that if ever we happened to take a house near Liverpool he'd be glad to supply us with coals, because he was a coal merchant. Jone told him that if he ever did take a house near Liverpool he certainly would give him his custom. Then the man gave us his card. "I come here every year," he said, "for the rheumatism in my shoulder, and if I meet anybody that lives near Liverpool, or is likely to, I try to get his custom. I like it here. There's a good many 'otels in this town. You can see a lot ...
— Pomona's Travels - A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former - Handmaiden • Frank R. Stockton
... who was king, and offer him up. Cast down the white servants of the Mother, and offer them up. Seize the slaves who stood before her in the plain, and offer them up. Lead forth the captives, and offer them up. Let the sacrifice of the Crowning of Kings be accomplished according to custom, that the god whose name is Jal may be appeased; that he may listen to the pleadings of the Mother, that the sun may shine upon us, that fruitfulness may fill the land and ...
— The People Of The Mist • H. Rider Haggard


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