Frequent repetition of the same behavior; way of behavior common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; method of doing, living or behaving.
Much forbidden by elder custom is accepted today.
Habitual buying of goods from one same vendor.
Thank you for your custom.
Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent. .
The distinction between custom and usage it that usage is a fact and custom is a law. There can be usage without custom, but not custom without usage.
Made or done in a way adjusted to fit the needs of a particular person or group (e.g., customer, health care patient, do-it-yourselfer), and thus specialized and, in some cases, unique.
Near-synonyms: custom-made, tailored, tailor-made, custom-built, purpose-built; see also Thesaurus:custom-made
To make familiar; to accustom.
a. 1771 (written, published posthumously) Thomas Gray, Agrippina Have not forgot your sire; the eye of Rome And the Prætorian camp have long revered, With customed awe the daughter, sister, wife, And mother of their Cæsars
To supply with customers.
PIE word *ḱóm PIE word *swé From Middle English custume, borrowed from Anglo-Norman custume, inherited from Latin consuētūdinem, a noun derived from cōnsuēscō, from con- (“with”) + suēscō (“become ...
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Own, personal, not standard or premade.
We can embroider a wide range of ready designs or a custom logo.
Done on a for-hire basis, as contrasted with being done only for oneself.
custom threshing
But yet a man might reply, that if a Shooemaker ſhould haue no Shooes in his Shoppe, but onely worke, as hee is beſpoken, hee ſhould bee weakley cuſtomed.
To pay the customs of.
Barabas, thy ships are safe, Riding in Malta Rhode; and all the merchants With other merchandize are safe arriv'd, And have sent me to know whether yourself Will come and custom them.