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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
customary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
law
▪ In the Emmental region the loca customary laws of inheritance differed markedly from most of their neighbours.
▪ So all were seen by their subjects in their role as peace-keepers, and also as upholders and definers of customary law.
▪ Disparities between areas of customary law could, however, be exploited by the ducal administration in Aquitaine during lawsuits.
▪ However, contemporary interpretations of customary law largely disadvantage women.
▪ But a family whose lands lay in an area of customary law where partible inheritance was the rule faced considerable problems.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As is customary, you will be paid a fixed fee for the job.
▪ It's customary to kiss the bride at a wedding.
▪ It is customary for the man to propose to the woman.
▪ The man at the hotel welcomed us with the customary greeting.
▪ We were presented with the customary bottle of champagne.
▪ Whitworth performed with his customary brilliance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Daphne only smiled and, as also was customary, asked after Tina.
▪ In Suffolk it was customary until recent years to plough a field in stetches or lands of varying widths.
▪ In the Emmental region the loca customary laws of inheritance differed markedly from most of their neighbours.
▪ It is now customary to consider reading in this context.
▪ Once this incorrect impression is accepted and congealed, there is no commanding reason to disrupt the customary rituals of their existence.
▪ The retirement condition encouraged an end to workforce participation on a massive scale and established arbitrary ages as the customary retirement ages.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Customary

Customary \Cus"tom*a*ry\, n. [OF. coustumier, F. coutumier.] A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans.
--Cowell.

Customary

Customary \Cus"tom*a*ry\ (k[u^]s"t[u^]m*[asl]*r[y^]), a. [CF. OF. coustumier, F. coutumier. See Custom, and cf. Customer.]

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

    Even now I met him With customary compliment.
    --Shak.

    A formal customary attendance upon the offices.
    --South.

  2. (Law) Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
customary

1520s, from Medieval Latin custumarius, from Latin consuetudinarius, from consuetitudinem (see custom (n.)). Related: Customarily.

Wiktionary
customary

a. 1 Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. 2 Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate. n. A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.

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WordNet
customary

  1. adj. in accordance with convention or custom; "sealed the deal with the customary handshake"

  2. commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor" [syn: accustomed, habitual, wonted(a)]

Usage examples of "customary".

He publicly chastised the cardinals for absenteeism, luxury, and lascivious life, forbade them to hold or sell plural benefices, prohibited their acceptance of pensions, gifts of money, and other favors from secular sources, ordered the papal treasurer not to pay them their customary half of the revenue from benefices but to use it for the restoration of churches in Rome.

Above two hundred and fifty years after the death of Trajan, the senate, in pouring out the customary acclamations on the accession of a new emperor, wished that he might surpass the felicity of Augustus, and the virtue of Trajan.

A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal.

When the assemblage point is moving away from its customary position and reaches a certain depth, it breaks a barrier that momentarily disrupts its capacity to align emanations.

Of course everyone understood that the Ancestress had no intention of burying her wealth with Fainting Maid, but the display was customary, and it was also designed to make lesser mortals turn green with envy.

Although the anesthetic worked, Liston operated with his customary speed, single-handedly amputating the leg at the thigh in exactly twenty-eight seconds.

Rhapsody watched as the bright celestial light dimmed in the brightening sky, then began to sing her last customary aubade, the song to Seren, the star she was born beneath, on the other side of the world.

The arrival of our exalted guest on the auspicious day of Holi purnima would be an occasion to celebrate with twice the customary pomp, yet other events have occurred to cast a shadow over our great city.

After the customary greetings he began by complimenting me on the success of my lottery, and then remarked that I had distributed tickets for more than six thousand francs.

She begged to be excused, saying with a little smile, that it was not customary to do so at Grenoble.

When the peasants of the neighborhood, joining with those of Montegnac, came, one by one, to lay upon their benefactress the customary palm, together with their last farewell mingled with prayers and tears, they saw the man of justice, crushed by grief, holding the hand of the woman whom, without intending it, he had so cruelly but so justly stricken.

Not long after they mixed libations in honour of Zeus, with pious rites as is customary, and poured them upon the burning tongues, and bethought them of sleep in the darkness.

Samson, but Samson took one look at Buffo, big as a house and already half seas over, shepherding his flock into the circus with his customary deranged majesty and the air of one about to commit grievous bodily harm.

Morin came in, his wife introduced me, and after the customary compliments had passed, she returned to the subject of the horoscope.

She squeezed his arm, and laughed gaily as they all trooped through to the blue drawing-room and clustered round attentively while Centaine settled herself in her customary place on the long sofa facing the roaring log fire in the Adam fireplace.