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custumary

custumary is the obsolete form of customary.

Meaning of customary

Adjective

customary (comparative more customary, superlative most customary)

  1. In accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage.
    • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a...1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
  2. Holding or held by custom.
    • customary tenants

See all 3 meanings of customary

Forms of custumary

Adjective
comparativemore custumary
superlativemost custumary
Noun
pluralcustumaries

Questions about custumary

What is custumary the obsolete form of?
Custumary is the obsolete form of customary.

Words near custumary in the dictionary

  1. custrons
  2. Custs
  3. custumal
  4. custumals
  5. custumaries
  6. custumary
  7. CUSUM
  8. Cusumano
  9. Cusumanos
  10. CUSUMs
  11. Cusworth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: custumary (page history and authors); customary (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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