From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Custom \Cus"tom\, verb (used with an object) [Cf. OF. costumer. Cf. {Accustom}.]
1. To make familiar; to accustom. [Obs.] --Gray.
2. To supply with customers. [Obs.] --Bacon.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Custom \Cus"tom\, verb (used without an object) To have a custom. [Obs.]
On a bridge he custometh to fight. --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Custom \Cus"tom\, noun [OF. coustume, F. coutume, tax, i. e., the usual tax. See 1st {Custom}.]
1. The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom. --Rom. xiii. 7.
2. pl. Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Custom \Cus"tom\ (k[u^]s"t[u^]m), noun [OF. custume, costume, Anglo-Norman coustome, F. coutume, fr. (assumed) LL. consuetumen custom, habit, fr. L. consuetudo, -dinis, fr. consuescere to accustom, verb inchoative fr. consuere to be accustomed; con- + suere to be accustomed, prob. originally, to make one's own, fr. the root of suus one's own; akin to E. so, adverb Cf. {Consuetude}, {Costume}.]
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. --Tennyson.
A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. --Shak.
2. Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
Let him have your custom, but not your votes. --Addison.
3. (Law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See {Usage}, and {Prescription}.
Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without custom. --Wharton.
4. Familiar aquaintance; familiarity. [Obs.]
Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. --Shak.
{Custom of merchants}, a system or code of customs by which affairs of commerce are regulated.
{General customs}, those which extend over a state or kingdom.
{Particular customs}, those which are limited to a city or district; as, the customs of London.
Syn: Practice; fashion. See {Habit}, and {Usage}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Custom \Cus"tom\, verb (used with an object) To pay the customs of. [Obs.] --Marlowe.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: made according to the specifications of an individual [syn: {custom-made}, {customized}, {customised}] [ant: {ready-made}]
noun
1: accepted or habitual practice [syn: {usage}, {usance}]
2: a specific practice of long standing [syn: {tradition}]
3: money collected under a tariff [syn: {customs}, {customs duty}, {impost}]
4: habitual patronage; "I have given this tailor my custom for many years"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
212 Moby Thesaurus words for "custom": 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
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Custom a tax imposed by the Romans. The tax-gatherers were termed publicans (q.v.), who had their stations at the gates of cities, and in the public highways, and at the place set apart for that purpose, called the "receipt of custom" (Matt.
9: 9; Mark 2:14), where they collected the money that was to be paid on certain goods (Matt.17:25). These publicans were tempted to exact more from the people than was lawful, and were, in consequence of their extortions, objects of great hatred. The Pharisees would have no intercourse with them (Matt.5:46, 47; 9:10, 11). A tax or tribute (q.v.) of half a shekel was annually paid by every adult Jew for the temple. It had to be paid in Jewish coin (Matt. 22:17-19; Mark 12:14, 15). Money-changers (q.v.) were necessary, to enable the Jews who came up to Jerusalem at the feasts to exchange their foreign coin for Jewish money; but as it was forbidden by the law to carry on such a traffic for emolument (Deut. 23:19, 20), our Lord drove them from the temple (Matt. 21:
12: Mark 11:15).
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