'Customary' definitions:
Definition of 'customary'
From: WordNet
adjective
In accordance with convention or custom; "sealed the deal with the customary handshake"
adjective
Commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor" [syn: accustomed, customary, habitual, wonted(a)]
Definition of 'Customary'
From: GCIDE
- Customary \Cus"tom*a*ry\, n. [OF. coustumier, F. coutumier.] A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans. --Cowell. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Customary'
From: GCIDE
- Customary \Cus"tom*a*ry\ (k[u^]s"t[u^]m*[asl]*r[y^]), a. [CF. OF. coustumier, F. coutumier. See Custom, and cf. Customer.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. [1913 Webster]
- Even now I met him With customary compliment. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A formal customary attendance upon the offices. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'customary'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accepted,
- accustomed,
- acknowledged,
- admitted,
- approved,
- authentic,
- authoritative,
- average,
- being done,
- canonical,
- Christian,
- 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