CUSTOM

custom, custom-made

(adjective) made according to the specifications of an individual

custom, usage, usance

(noun) accepted or habitual practice

custom

(noun) habitual patronage; “I have given this tailor my custom for many years”

custom, tradition

(noun) a specific practice of long standing

customs, customs duty, custom, impost

(noun) money collected under a tariff

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

custom (countable and uncountable, plural customs)

Frequent repetition of the same behavior; way of behavior common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; method of doing, living or behaving.

Traditional beliefs or rituals

(UK) Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, factory, etc, for making purchases or giving orders; business support.

(legal) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.

(obsolete) Familiar acquaintance; familiarity.

(archaic, uncountable) toll, tax, or tribute.

Synonyms

• fashion

• habit

• wone

• practice

• usage

• wont

Adjective

custom (not comparable)

Created under particular specifications, specially to fit one's needs: specialized, unique, custom-made

Own, personal, not standard or premade

(archaic) accustomed; usual

Verb

custom (third-person singular simple present customs, present participle customing, simple past and past participle customed)

(obsolete, transitive) To make familiar; to accustom.

(obsolete, transitive) To supply with customers.

(obsolete, transitive) To pay the customs of.

(obsolete, intransitive) To have a custom.

Source: Wiktionary

Cus"tom (ks"tm), n. Etym: [OF. custume, costume, Anglo-Norman coustome, F. coutume, fr. (assumed) LL. consuetumen custom, habit, fr. L. consuetudo, -dinis, fr. consuescere to accustom, verb inchoative fr. consuere to be accustomed; con- + suere to be accustomed, prosuus one's own; akin to E. so, adv. Cf. Consuetude, Costume.]

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. Acts xvi. 21. Moved beyong his custom, Gama said. Tennyson. A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. Shak.

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. Addison.

3. (Law)

Definition: 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. Wharton.

4. Familiar aquaintance; familiarity. [Obs.] Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Shak. 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.

Syn.

– Practice; fashion. See Habit, and Usage.

Cus"tom, v. t. Etym: [Cf. OF. costumer. Cf. Accustom.]

1. To make familiar; to accustom. [Obs.] Gray.

2. To supply with customers. [Obs.] Bacon.

Cus"tom, v. i.

Definition: To have a custom. [Obs.] On a bridge he custometh to fight. Spenser.

Cus"tom, n. Etym: [OF. coustume, F. coutume, tax, i. e., the usual tax. See 1st Custom.]

Definition: 1 the customary toll,tax, or tribute. Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom. Rom. xiii. 7.

2. pl.

Definition: Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.

Cus"tom, v. t.

Definition: To pay the customs of. [Obs.] Marlowe.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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