 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
customary
adjective
1: in accordance with convention or custom; "sealed the deal
with the customary handshake"
2: commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed
thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his
habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor" [syn: {accustomed},
{habitual}, {wonted(a)}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Customary \Cus"tom*a*ry\, noun [OF. coustumier, F. coutumier.]
A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the
Customary of the Normans. --Cowell.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Customary \Cus"tom*a*ry\ (k[u^]s"t[u^]m*[asl]*r[y^]), adjective [CF.
OF. coustumier, F. coutumier. See {Custom}, and cf.
{Customer}.]
1. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by
common usage; conventional; habitual.
Even now I met him
With customary compliment. --Shak.
A formal customary attendance upon the offices.
--South.
2. (Law) Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants;
customary service or estate.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "customary":
Christian, accepted, accustomed, acknowledged, admitted, approved,
authentic, authoritative, average, being done, canonical, chronic,
comme il faut, common, commonplace, conformable, consuetudinary,
conventional, correct, current, de rigueur, decent, decorous,
established, evangelical, everyday, faithful, familiar, firm,
fixed, folk, formal, frequent, general, generally accepted,
habitual, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoary, household,
immemorial, inveterate, legendary, literal, long-established,
long-standing, meet, mythological, normal, normative, obtaining,
of long standing, of the faith, of the folk, oral, ordinary,
orthodox, orthodoxical, popular, predominating, prescribed,
prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, proper, received, recognized,
regular, regulation, right, rooted, routine, scriptural, seemly,
set, sound, standard, stipulated, stock, textual, time-honored,
traditional, traditionalistic, tried and true, true, true-blue,
understood, universal, unwritten, usual, venerable, vernacular,
widespread, wonted, worshipful
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