Definition of Customary

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Customary

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

Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.

A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans.

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Customary Quotations

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
Flannery O'Connor

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Leon Trotsky

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Thomas Huxley

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
Thomas Huxley

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.
Hideki Tojo

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.
Paul Berg

Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.
Curt Flood

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.
Harry Johnston

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.
Heinrich Schliemann

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.
Henry James Sumner Maine

Customary Translations

customary in Dutch is gebruikelijk, gewoon
customary in Latin is consueta, solitus, usitas
customary in Portuguese is habitual
customary in Spanish is acostumbrado
customary in Swedish is bruklig, vanlig

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