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consuetudinarily

consuetudinarily adverb: in a manner that pertains to consuetude; customarily; traditionally.

Adverb

consuetudinarily (comparative more consuetudinarily, superlative most consuetudinarily)

  1. (Scotland) In a manner that pertains to consuetude; customarily; traditionally.
    • So that the mode consuetudinarily now adopted for assessing poor's rates for the real poor, is borrowed from that part of the Scots acts which relates solely to the provision to be made for sending idle vagrants, able to work, to those correction-houses where they were to have been compelled to...1802, The Great Britain Board of Agriculture - The Reverend Mr. Charles Findlater: Minister of the Parish of Newlands, in the Country of Peebles, General View of the Agriculture of the Country of...
    • If a practice which conformed with those three requirements had been conducted consuetudinarily, the court was authorised to infer from this practice the common conviction of the people.2007, Amanda Perreau-Saussine & James Bernard Murphy, The Nature of Customary Law: Legal, Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, page 136

Examples of consuetudinarily in a sentence

  • Affirmative as consuetudinarily, now shoo!1949, Paul J. Phelan, A Time to Laugh: A Risible Reader by Catholic Writers, Longmans Green Publishing, page 274
  • Consuetudinarily, the term May Fourth Movement is used by scholars as synonym for the New Cultural Movement, New Poetry Movement or Literary Revolution.1991,國立臺灣師範大學文學院, 敎學與硏究 - Issues 13-15, The University of California Press, page 284
  • Woods' paper, consuetudinarily I admitted that one may smoke without being despicable, and that compared with the comfort, the soothing and solacing influence balmily spread over the world at large.1899, American Medical Association, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume 32, The Michigan University Press, page...

Forms of consuetudinarily

comparativemore consuetudinarily
superlativemost consuetudinarily

Origin of consuetudinarily

From consuetudinary + -ly.

Questions about consuetudinarily

What does consuetudinarily mean?
Consuetudinarily means in a manner that pertains to consuetude; customarily; traditionally.
How do you use consuetudinarily in a sentence?
Affirmative as consuetudinarily, now shoo!
What part of speech is consuetudinarily?
Consuetudinarily is an adverb.

Words near consuetudinarily in the dictionary

  1. Consuelo
  2. consuetude
  3. consuetudes
  4. consuetudinal
  5. consuetudinaries
  6. consuetudinarily
  7. consuetudinary
  8. consuetudinous
  9. consuite
  10. consuites
  11. consul

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