If something has been done a certain way for a long time and has become generally accepted, it's a custom. Asking strangers for candy on one night a year would seem strange if it weren't an established custom.
Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
Noun
accepted or habitual practice
Noun
habitual patronage; "I have given this tailor my custom for many years"
Noun
a specific practice of long standing
Noun
money collected under a tariff
Adjective
made according to the specifications of an individual
n.
Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common
to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or
living.
n.
Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a
shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders;
business support.
n.
Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and
resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and
Prescription.
n.
Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.
v. t.
To make familiar; to accustom.
v. t.
To supply with customers.
v. i.
To have a custom.
n.
The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
n.
Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or
exported.
v. t.
To pay the customs of.
Custom
And teach customs which are not lawful.
Moved beyong his custom, Gama said.
A custom More honored in the breach than the observance.2.
Let him have your custom, but not your votes.3.
Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
Custom
Custom
On a bridge he custometh to fight.
Custom
Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom.2.
Custom
Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
To make familiar; to accustom.
To have a custom.
1 the customary toll,tax, or tribute.
To pay the customs of.
Usage Examples
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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Other Usage ExamplesMarriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Custom is second nature.
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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