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consuetudinous

consuetudinous adjective: of or pertaining to consuetude; of an unwritten law established by usage, derived by immemorial custom from antiquity.

Adjective

consuetudinous (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to consuetude; of an unwritten law established by usage, derived by immemorial custom from antiquity.
    • Sensual man, so attached to externals, etches the letter on his memory, clings fast to the consuetudinous, and cannot disengage himself from his delusive conceits.1838, Moses Mendelssohn, “Mendelssohn's Jerusalem”, in Jerusalem; a treatise on ecclesiastical authority and Judaism, page 261
  2. consuetudinary

Origin of consuetudinous

From Latin cōnsuētūdō (oblique stem cōnsuētūdin-) + English -ous, from cōnsuēscō + -tūdō, from con- + suēscō. By surface analysis, consuetude + -ous.

Questions about consuetudinous

What does consuetudinous mean?
Consuetudinous means of or pertaining to consuetude; of an unwritten law established by usage, derived by immemorial custom from antiquity.
What part of speech is consuetudinous?
Consuetudinous is an adjective.

Words near consuetudinous in the dictionary

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

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