Definition of Custom

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Custom

Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.

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

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

Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.

To make familiar; to accustom.

To supply with customers.

To have a custom.

The customary toll, tax, or tribute.

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

To pay the customs of.

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Custom Quotations

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Marcus Aurelius

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Blaise Pascal

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Soren Kierkegaard

The best interpreter of the law is custom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
Saint Ambrose

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
Michel de Montaigne

Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke

Custom Translations

custom in Afrikaans is gebruik, gewoonte
custom in Dutch is gewoonte, gebruik, usance
custom in Finnish is tapa
custom in German is Kunden, kundenspezifisch, Gewohnheit, Kundschaft
custom in Italian is usanza, usanza, uso
custom in Latin is consuetudo, adsuetudo
custom in Norwegian is bruk, skikk
custom in Portuguese is costume
custom in Spanish is usanza, costumbre

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