custom
Speech parts
1. custom - Noun
2. custom - Adjective
3. custom - Verb
Meaning
Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.
Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.
To make familiar; to accustom.
To supply with customers.
To have a custom.
The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
To pay the customs of.
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When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
Custom is often only the antiquity of error.
Be a custom good or bad, a peasant will have it continue in force.
Custom and law are sisters.
Custom and law are sisters.