Custom

Noun

 * 1) Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
 * And teach customs which are not lawful. Acts xvi. 21.
 * Moved beyond his custom, Gama said. Alfred Tennyson.
 * A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. Shakespeare
 * 1) Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
 * 2) * Let him have your custom, but not your votes. - Joseph Addison.
 * 3)  Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.
 * 4) * Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without custom. Wharton.
 * 5)  Familiar acquaintance; familiarity.
 * 6) * Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Shakespeare
 * 7) The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
 * 8) * Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom. Rom. xiii. 7.

Adjective

 * 1) made in a different way from usual, specially to fit one's needs
 * My feet are as big as powerboats, so I need custom shoes.

Verb

 * 1)   To make familiar; to accustom.
 * 2)   To supply with customers.
 * 3)   To pay the customs of.
 * 4)   To have a custom.
 * On a bridge he custometh to fight. Edmund Spenser.

Adjectives for Custom
august; precious; gracious;  venerated pleasant; sentimental;  quaint; bizarre effete; mutable; ancient; immemorial; time honored; convenient; prudent; barbaric pagan; primitive; yearly; native; austere civilized; tribal; nightly; family; social old-fashioned;  southern;   administrative religious; accepted; wild; gay; universal; innocent; disinterested; reprehensible; contrasting; established; observed; prevailing casual; frequent; habitual; recognized classic; homogeneous; antiquated; unwonted; barbarous; charming; burial; pious genteel; blind; stupid; laudable; national long-continued; kingly; transient; excellent preserved; ludicrous; prescribed; early depraved; usual; infuriating; political traditional; obsolete; enlightened; invari able; offensive; salutary; idiotic; well known; uniform; familiar; reverent; exuberant; discrepant; monastic; praiseworthy queer.

Verbs for Custom
adhere to—; break—; cherish—; cling to—; conform to—; corrupt—; defend—; defer—; defy—; deprecate—; develop—; discharge—; establish—; esteem—; extenuate—; flout—; honor—; impose—; inaugurate—; maintain—; mar—; mock—; observe—; overlap—; overwhelm by—; respect—; retain—; reverence—; revert to-; revive—; run counter to—; stamp out—; —demands; —dictates; —governs; —intimidates; —narrows; —runs back to; —springs from; —stales; hamper by—.

Synonyms for Custom
fashion, habit, wone, practice, usage, wont, manner, precedent, rule, mores, convention.

Antonyms for Custom
irregularity, deviation, difference, departure, divergence

Derived terms

 * custom made

Thesaurus
Mishnah, Spiritus Mundi, Sunna, Talmud, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, ancient wisdom, archetypal myth, archetypal pattern, assembled, automatism, bad habit, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, bienseance, bon ton, built, business, canon, carriage, carriage trade, cast, characteristic, civility, clientage, clientele, common law, comportment, conduct, conformity, constructed, consuetude, convenance, convention, conventional usage, conventionalism, conventionality, correctness, crafted, created, creature of habit, culture pattern, custom-built, custom-made, customs, decency, decorousness, decorum, demeanor, deportment, doing, doings, dues, duty, especially, etiquette, excise, exclusively, expressly, extracted, fabricated, fashion, fashioned, fixture, folk motif, folklore, folktale, folkway, force of habit, forged, form, formality, formed, gathered, gestures, goings-on, good form, good name, goodwill, grown, guise, habit, habit pattern, habitude, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, haute couture, high fashion, homemade, homespun, immemorial usage, impost, institution, law, legend, levy, lore, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, maintien, man-made, manner, manners, manufactured, market, matter of course, method, methodology, methods, mien, milled, mined, mode, modus vivendi, mold, molded, motions, movements, moves, myth, mythology, observable behavior, particularly, patronage, pattern, peculiarity, poise, port, pose, posture, practice, praxis, precedent, precept, prefab, prefabricated, prescription, presence, prevailing taste, procedure, proceeding, processed, proper thing, propriety, public, purchasing public, put together, racial memory, raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, repute, ritual, routine, rubric, rule, rural market, second nature, seemliness, shaped, smelted, social convention, social science, social usage, specially, stereotype, stereotyped behavior, stream of fashion, style, suburban market, support, swim, tactics, tailor-made, tariff, tax, to order, toll, tone, trade, tradition, traditionalism, traditionality, traffic, trend, trick, usage, use, vogue, way, way of life, ways, well-built, well-constructed, well-made, wont, youth market

Etymology
From custume:, from  custume:, from  coustume:, from  *undefined:, from  consuetudinem:, accusative singular of consuetudo: from consuesco:, from con-: + suesco:, inchoative form of sueo:, perhaps from suus:; see consuetude:. Displaced native wune: (from  wuna:),  side: (from  sidu:),  cure: (from  cyre:).

Noun

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Related terms

 * consuetude
 * costumal
 * costume
 * customary
 * customer
 * customization
 * customize