Word Meanings - CUSTOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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. 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. (more info) coustome, F. coutume, fr. 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, 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CUSTOM)

• Fashion
• Form
• shape
• guise
• style
• appearance
• character
• figure
• mould
• mode
• custom
• practice
• usage
• manner
• way
• ceremony
• Impost
• Imposition
• tax
• burden
• toll
• tribute
• excise
• duty
• Observance
• Attention
• fulfilment
• respect
• celebration
• performance
• form
• rule
• Practice
• Usage
• habit
• exercise
• experience
• exercitation
• action
• Prevalence
• Custom
• power
• influence
• operation
• extension
• predominance
• superiority
• efficacy
• preponderance

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CUSTOM)

• Rest
• ease
• disuse
• respite
• relax
• recreate
• Evade
• escape
• miss
• lose
• Overlook
• disregard
• dishonor
• despise
• contemn
• Pervert
• distort
• misadapt
• misdelineate
• derange
• discompose
• misconstrue
• misproduce
• caricature

Related words: (words related to CUSTOM)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• EXPERIENCED
  Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• HABITURE
  Habitude.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• STYLET
  A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• FASHION-MONGERING
  Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak.
• FASHIONED
  Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.
• FASHION-MONGER
  One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.
• HABITED
  1. Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd. 2. Fixed by habit; accustomed. So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller. 3. Inhabited. Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison.
• BURDENER
  One who loads; a oppressor.
• FASHIONABLY
  In a fashionable manner.
• EXERCISE
  exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• ARAEOSTYLE
  See INTERCOLUMNIATION
• MOLDINESS; MOULDINESS
  The state of being moldy.
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• MOLDER; MOULDER
  One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically , one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• HOOD MOLDING; HOOD MOULDING
  A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.
• COHABITER
  A cohabitant. Hobbes.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• MOLD; MOULD
  mulm, OHG. molt, molta, Icel. mold, Dan. muld, Sw. mull, Goth. mulda, prevalent spelling is, perhaps, mould; but as the u has not been inserted in the other words of this class, as bold, gold, old, cold, etc., it seems desirable to complete the