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Word: 'custom' • Extended Annotations



custom

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Ancestral Lore

Ancestral Lore of custom

circa 1200, custume, "habitual practice" (of an individual, or a nation, or community)

from Old French costume "custom, habit, practice; clothes, dress"

custom is a doublet of costume

custom noun
  • costume
  • any unwittingly adopted practise; any indiscriminately accepted practise
  • a fashionable or approved habit
  • a practice common to many or to a particular place or institution
  • long-established practice considered as unwritten law; repeated practice
  • the whole body of usages, practices, or conventions that regulate social life
  • customs (plural)
    • duties, tolls, or imposts imposed by the law of a country on imports or exports
    • the agency, establishment, or procedure for collecting such customs
  • business patronage
  • usually habitual patrons; customers
customary adjective
  • costumary
  • commonly practiced, used, or observed
  • based on or established by custom

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Specific examples and quotes of custom

For an infinitely more lucid (clear) alternative to custom, see habit. Compare to way.


“Eventually, after observing many different ways and customs, she saw an underlying pattern: The same mechanisms that animated her parents seemed to hold many others hostage, merely manifesting in different ways. The surface or the appearance diversified, while the underlying principle kept repeating.”

"Weird Genius"
The Story of Your Ankh

by Sabina Nore

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Legend

~☉~lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
classic definition
artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense

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