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custom

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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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. Ambrose

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. Ambrose

Custom is often only the antiquity of error. Cyprian

Be a custom good or bad, a peasant will have it continue in force. Spanish Proverb

Custom and law are sisters. Slovak Proverb

Custom and law are sisters. Czechoslovakian Proverb

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