Custom
Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.
Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.
To make familiar; to accustom.
To supply with customers.
To have a custom.
The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
To pay the customs of.
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Custom Quotations
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Marcus Aurelius
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Soren Kierkegaard
Laws are subordinate to custom.
Plautus
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
John Stuart Mill
It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
David Hume
Custom is the great guide to human life.
David Hume
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Blaise Pascal
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Custom Translations
custom in Afrikaans is gebruik, gewoonte
custom in Dutch is gewoonte, gebruik, usance
custom in Finnish is tapa
custom in German is Kunden, kundenspezifisch, Gewohnheit, Kundschaft
custom in Italian is usanza, usanza, uso
custom in Latin is consuetudo, adsuetudo
custom in Norwegian is bruk, skikk
custom in Portuguese is costume
custom in Spanish is usanza, costumbre
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