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customary

adj
/ˈkʌs.tə.m(ə.)ɹi/UK/ˈkʌs.təˌmɛɹ.i/US

Etymology

From Middle English custumary, from Medieval Latin custumarius. By surface analysis, custom + -ary.

  1. derived from custumarius
  2. inherited from custumary

Definitions

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

    • 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.

  2. Holding or held by custom.

    • customary tenants
    • The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.

  3. A book containing laws and usages, or customs

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

The neighborhood

Derived

customarily, customariness, customary international law, customary marriage, customary unit, noncustomary, uncustomary

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at customary. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at customary. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at customary

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA