custom

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.

A custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance.

Habitual buying of goods from one same vendor.

Thank you for your custom.

Let him have your custom, but not your votes.

Habitual buying of goods from one same vendor.

Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent. Compare prescription.

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.

Traditional beliefs or rituals.

The Ancient Egyptian culture had many distinctive and interesting beliefs and customs; one custom was the mummification of the dead.

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

My feet are very large, so I need custom shoes, specially made by a custom tailor.

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

custom baling

Accustomed; usual.

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.

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.

To have a custom.

For on a Bridge he cuſtometh to fight, / Which is but narrow, but exceeding long; / And in the ſame are many trap fals pight, / Through which the rider downe doth fall through ouerſight.