'Custom' definitions:

Definition of 'custom'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Made according to the specifications of an individual [syn: custom-made, custom] [ant: ready-made]
noun
Accepted or habitual practice [syn: custom, usage, usance]
noun
A specific practice of long standing [syn: custom, tradition]
noun
Money collected under a tariff [syn: customs, customs duty, custom, impost]
noun
Habitual patronage; "I have given this tailor my custom for many years"

Definition of 'Custom'

From: GCIDE
  • Custom \Cus"tom\ (k[u^]s"t[u^]m), n. [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, adv. Cf. Consuetude, Costume.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living. [1913 Webster]
  • And teach customs which are not lawful. --Acts xvi. 21. [1913 Webster]
  • Moved beyond his custom, Gama said. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support. [1913 Webster]
  • Let him have your custom, but not your votes. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without custom. --Wharton. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Familiar aquaintance; familiarity. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Custom'

From: GCIDE
  • Custom \Cus"tom\, v. t. To pay the customs of. [Obs.] --Marlowe. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Custom'

From: GCIDE
  • Custom \Cus"tom\, v. t. [Cf. OF. costumer. Cf. Accustom.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. To make familiar; to accustom. [Obs.] --Gray. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To supply with customers. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Custom'

From: GCIDE
  • Custom \Cus"tom\, v. i. To have a custom. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • On a bridge he custometh to fight. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Custom'

From: GCIDE
  • Custom \Cus"tom\, n. [OF. coustume, F. coutume, tax, i. e., the usual tax. See 1st Custom.]
  • 1. The customary toll, tax, or tribute. [1913 Webster]
  • Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom. --Rom. xiii. 7. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. pl. Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'custom'

From: 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).

Synonyms of 'custom'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Custom'