Definition of custom

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

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Wont :: Wont (n.) Custom; habit; use; usage.
Cacoethes :: Cacoethes (n.) A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoethes scribendi, The itch for writing..
Strange :: Strange (superl.) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
Bushfighter :: Bushfighter (n.) One accustomed to bushfighting.
Ceremonial :: Ceremonial (n.) A system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law, or established by custom, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the courts of princes; outward form..
Swerve :: Swerve (v. i.) To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate..
Gear :: Gear (n.) Manner; custom; behavior.
Jurisprudence :: "Jurisprudence (a.) The science of juridical law; the knowledge of the laws, customs, and rights of men in a state or community, necessary for the due administration of justice..
Borough-english :: Borough-English (n.) A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother..
Insuetude :: Insuetude (n.) The state or quality of being unaccustomed; absence of use or habit.
Trust :: Trust (n.) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods..
Education :: Education (n.) The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education..
Conge :: Conge (n.) To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow or courtesy.
Indecorum :: Indecorum (n.) Want of decorum; impropriety of behavior; that in behavior or manners which violates the established rules of civility, custom, or etiquette; indecorousness..
Practice :: Practice (v. t.) To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
Observer :: Observer (n.) One who keeps any law, custom, regulation, rite, etc.; one who conforms to anything in practice..
Conventionality :: Conventionality (n.) The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.
Plan :: Plan (a.) A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
Innovation :: Innovation (n.) A change effected by innovating; a change in customs; something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites..
Vogue :: Vogue (n.) The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom, or practice; popular reception for the time; -- used now generally in the phrase in vogue..
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