Customary

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: cus=tom=ar=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

Customary, a. [CF. OF. coustumier, F. coutumier. See Custom, and cf. Customer.].

•  Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.  [1913 Webster]

  "Even now I met him
  With customary compliment."  [1913 Webster]

  "A formal customary attendance upon the offices."  [1913 Webster]
•  Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.  [1913 Webster]

Customary, n. [OF. coustumier, F. coutumier.].

 A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans.  Cowell.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Customary, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 usual; in accordance with custom.
2 Law in accordance with custom.
--n. (pl. -ies) Law a book etc. listing the customs and established practices of a community.

Derivative

customarily adv. customariness n.

Etymology

med.L custumarius f. custuma f. AF custume (as CUSTOM)

THESAURUS

Customary

Christian, accepted, accustomed, acknowledged, admitted, approved, authentic, authoritative, average, being done, canonical, chronic, comme il faut, common, commonplace, conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, correct, current, de rigueur, decent, decorous, established, evangelical, everyday, faithful, familiar, firm, fixed, folk, formal, frequent, general, generally accepted, habitual, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoary, household, immemorial, inveterate, legendary, literal, long-established, long-standing, meet, mythological, normal, normative, obtaining, of long standing, of the faith, of the folk, oral, ordinary, orthodox, orthodoxical, popular, predominating, prescribed, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, proper, received, recognized, regular, regulation, right, rooted, routine, scriptural, seemly, set, sound, standard, stipulated, stock, textual, time-honored, traditional, traditionalistic, tried and true, true, true-blue, understood, universal, unwritten, usual, venerable, vernacular, widespread, wonted, worshipful

ROGET THESAURUS

Customary

Generality

N generality, generalization, universality, catholicity, catholicism, miscellany, miscellaneousness, dragnet, common run, worldwideness, everyone, everybody, all hands, all the world and his wife, anybody, N or M, all sorts, prevalence, run, general, generic, collective, broad, comprehensive, sweeping, encyclopedical, widespread, universal, catholic, catholical, common, worldwide, ecumenical, oecumenical, transcendental, prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic, besetting, all over, covered with, Pan-American, Anglican, Pan-Hellenic, Pan-Germanic, slavic, panharmonic, every, all, unspecified, impersonal, customary, whatever, whatsoever, to a man, one and all, generally, always, for better for worse, in general, generally speaking, speaking generally, for the most part, in the long run.

Oldness

N oldness, age, antiquity, cobwebs of antiquity, maturity, decline, decay, senility, seniority, eldership, primogeniture, archaism, thing of the past, relic of the past, megatherium, Sanskrit, tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law, old, ancient, antique, of long standing, time-honored, venerable, elder, eldest, firstborn, prime, primitive, primeval, primigenous, paleolontological, paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic, paleolithic, primordial, primordinate, aboriginal, diluvian, antediluvian, protohistoric, prehistoric, antebellum, colonial, precolumbian, patriarchal, preadamite, paleocrystic, fossil, paleozoolical, paleozoic, preglacial, antemundane, archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter, immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contr, inveterate, rooted, antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete, out of date, out of fashion, out of it, stale, old-fashioned, behind the age, old-world, exploded, gone out, gone by, passe, run out, senile, time worn, crumbling, secondhand, old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam, old as history, Archeozoic, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary, Paleogene, Neocene, Quaternary, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent, since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of Methuselah, vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.

Frequency

N frequency, oftness, oftenness, commonness, repetition, normality, example (conformity), routine, custom (habit), regularity, uniformity, constancy, clock-work precision, punctuality, even tenor, system, routine, formula, rule, keynote, standard, model, precedent, conformity, frequent, many times, not rare, thickcoming, incessant, perpetual, continual, steady, constant, thick, uniform, repeated, customary, (habit), regular (normal), according to rule, common, everyday, usual, ordinary, familiar, old-hat, boring, well-known, trivial, often, oft, ofttimes, oftentimes, frequently, repeatedly, unseldom, not unfrequently, in quick succession, in rapid succession, many a time and oft, daily, hourly, every day, every hour, every moment, perpetually, continually, constantly, incessantly, without ceasing, at all times, daily and hourly, night and day, day and night, day after day, morning noon and night, ever anon, invariably (habit), most often, commonly, sometimes, occasionally, at times, now and then, from time to time, there being times when, toties quoties, often enough, when the mood strikes, again and again.