customing

Verb

custom (third-person singular simple present customs, present participle customing, simple past and past participle customed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make familiar; to accustom.
   • a. 1771 (written, published posthumously) Thomas Gray, Agrippina
     Have not forgot your sire; the eye of Rome
     And the Prætorian camp have long revered,
     With customed awe the daughter, sister, wife,
     And mother of their Cæsars
2. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with customers.
   • But yet a man might reply, that if a Shooemaker ſhould haue no Shooes in his Shoppe, but onely worke, as hee is beſpoken, hee ſhould bee weakley cuſtomed.1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for...
3. (obsolete, transitive) To pay the customs of.
   • Barabas, thy ships are safe,
     Riding in Malta Rhode; and all the merchants
     With other merchandize are safe arriv'd,
     And have sent me to know whether yourself
     Will come and custom them.c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published...
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To have a custom.
   • For on a Bridge he cuſtometh to fight, / Which is but narrow, but exceeding long; / And in the ſame are many trap fals pight, / Through which the rider downe doth fall through ouerſight.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 7, page 198

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