customary

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customary (plural customaries)

1. A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.

customary (comparative more customary, superlative most customary)

1. In accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage

   Synonyms: conventional, habitual

   • 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 39:

     When two people met for the first time in Diaspar—or even for the hundredth—it was customary to spend an hour or so in an exchange or courtesies before getting down to business, if any.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:

     At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

2. Holding or held by custom

   customary tenants

   • 1777, Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland

     The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.

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