Crossword clues for custom
custom
- Removing one's hat in an elevator, e.g.
- Convention
- Made-to-order
- Habitual patronage
- Accepted or habitual practice
- A specific practice of long standing
- Money collected under a tariff
- Usage
- Habitual practice
- Copper’s cat’s habitual practice
- Copper with most unusual habit
- Confined in nick, sons honour tradition
- Established usage
- Accepted practice
- Removing one's hat in an elevator, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Custom \Cus"tom\, v. t.
To pay the customs of. [Obs.]
--Marlowe.
Custom \Cus"tom\ (k[u^]s"t[u^]m), n. [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, prob. originally, to make one's own, fr. the root of suus one's own; akin to E. so, adv. Cf. Consuetude, Costume.]
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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 beyond his custom, Gama said.
--Tennyson.A custom More honored in the breach than the observance.
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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.
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(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.
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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.
Custom \Cus"tom\, n. [OF. coustume, F. coutume, tax, i. e., the usual tax. See 1st Custom.]
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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. pl. Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
Custom \Cus"tom\, v. i. To have a custom. [Obs.]
On a bridge he custometh to fight.
--Spenser.
Custom \Cus"tom\, v. t. [Cf. OF. costumer. Cf. Accustom.]
To make familiar; to accustom. [Obs.]
--Gray.To supply with customers. [Obs.]
--Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "habitual practice," from Old French costume "custom, habit, practice; clothes, dress" (12c., Modern French coutume), from Vulgar Latin *consuetumen, from Latin consuetudinem (nominative consuetudo) "habit, usage, way, practice, tradition, familiarity," from consuetus, past participle of consuescere "accustom," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + suescere "become used to, accustom oneself," related to sui, genitive of suus "oneself," from PIE *swe- "oneself" (see idiom). Replaced Old English þeaw. Sense of a "regular" toll or tax on goods is early 14c. The native word here is toll.
"made to measure or order," c.1830, from custom (n.).\n
Wiktionary
1 Created under particular specifications, specially to fit one's needs: specialized, unique, custom-made 2 Own, personal, not standard or premade n. 1 Frequent repetition of the same behavior; way of behavior common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing, living or behaving. 2 habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support. 3 (context legal English) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. 4 (context obsolete English) Familiar acquaintance; familiarity. 5 The customary toll, tax, or tribute. v
1 (context obsolete transitive English) To make familiar; to accustom. 2 (context obsolete transitive English) To supply with customers. 3 (context obsolete transitive English) To pay the customs of. 4 (context obsolete intransitive English) To have a custom.
WordNet
adj. made according to the specifications of an individual [syn: custom-made, customized, customised] [ant: ready-made]
Wikipedia
Custom may refer to:
Custom (also known as Duane Lavold) is a Canadian-born, New York-based rock musician and film maker best known for his song "Hey Mister".
Custom in law is the established pattern of behavior that can be objectively verified within a particular social setting. A claim can be carried out in defense of "what has always been done and accepted by law." Related is the idea of prescription; a right enjoyed through long custom rather than positive law.
Customary law (also, consuetudinary or unofficial law) exists where:
- a certain legal practice is observed and
- the relevant actors consider it to be law ( opinio juris).
Most customary laws deal with standards of community that have been long-established in a given locale. However the term can also apply to areas of international law where certain standards have been nearly universal in their acceptance as correct bases of action - in example, laws against piracy or slavery (see hostis humani generis). In many, though not all instances, customary laws will have supportive court rulings and case law that has evolved over time to give additional weight to their rule as law and also to demonstrate the trajectory of evolution (if any) in the interpretation of such law by relevant courts.
Custom in Catholic canon law is the repeated and constant performance of certain acts for a defined period of time, which, with the approval of the competent legislator, thereby acquire the force of law. A custom is an unwritten law introduced by the continuous acts of the faithful with the consent of the legitimate legislator.
Custom may be considered as a fact and as a law. As a fact, it is simply the frequent and free repetition of acts concerning the same thing; as a law, it is the result and consequence of that fact. Hence its name, which is derived from consuesco or consuefacio and denotes the frequency of the action. (Cap. Consuetudo v, Dist. I.)
In order for custom to become a source of law, it must be approved by the competent legislator. Custom in canon law is not simply created by the people through their constant performance of a certain act, but it is the constant performance of a certain act, with the intention of making a custom, which is approved by the competent legislator, thereby acquiring the force of law. This is because of the Catholic ecclesiological teaching on the constitution of the Catholic Church, which states that Christ constituted the Church by divine delegation of power to the hierarchical authorities; the Church was not created by the consent of the governed, but by the direct will of Christ.
Usage examples of "custom".
In this persuasion certain of the Aztec priests practised complete abscission or entire discerption of the virile parts, and a mutilation of females was not unknown similar to that immemorially a custom in Egypt.
On days of general festivity, it was the custom of the ancients to adorn their doors with lamps and with branches of laurel, and to crown their heads with a garland of flowers.
There was no display of goods in the great windows, or any device to advertise wares, or attract custom.
In accordance with Beklan custom some of the guests, in twos and threes, were beginning to get up and stroll out of the hall, either into the corridors or as far as the westward-facing portico of the palace, whence they could look out across the city walls towards the afterglow beyond the far-off Palteshi hills.
Customs Station east of Akela, where inspections of late were conducted with greater seriousness than they had been in more innocent days, Jilly thought about the men in her life.
Customs Station east of Akela, New Mexico, where even poor shady Fred in his suspicious pot had been regarded warily.
Appalled but fascinated by the bound feet of her amah and other Chinese women, she understood, even as a child, that this barbaric custom symbolized male supremacy.
Their customs were separate from those of either mankind or the ancipital kind.
But supposing a committee of arboriculturists, in these days of stamping out all the joyous old pantheistic customs, were to sit in open-air conclave and adjudge the reward of a caressing parasite to the sturdiest old trunk in the Australian bush, this ancient gum-tree would have been entwined for its remaining decades--years are of little account in the life of such a tree--by the very Abishag of a creeper.
Notwithstanding the legend, therefore, Draupadi might be regarded as wedded to Yudhishthir, though won by the skill of Arjun, and this assumption would be in keeping with Hindu customs and laws, ancient and modern.
During one of the most glorious years of my life, in the period which is marked for me by the erection of the Pantheon, I had you elected, out of friendship for your family, to the sacred college of the Arval Brethren, over which the emperor presides, and which devoutly perpetuates our ancient Roman religious customs.
As they played after supper, and Lord Lincoln followed the noble English custom of drinking till he did not know his right hand from his left, he was quite astonished on waking the next morning to find that luck had been as kind to him as love.
This duty has been, under existing circumstances, satisfactorily performed, in part at least, by authorizing the issue of United States notes, receivable for all government dues except customs, and made a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except interest on public debt.
Probably they will be afraid, Baas, or say that it is against their custom, or that Heu-Heu will catch them if they do, or something of the sort.
Dobby had been killed by Ludo Bagman, the house elves of Hogwarts held their version of a funeral for him, as was the custom.