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consuetude|ˈkɒnswiːtjuːd|
Also 4–7 conswe-.
[a. OF. consuetude, ad. L. consuētūdo, short for consuēti-tūdo, f. consuētus: see -tude. (The inherited form of the L. word was OF. coustume custom.]
1. Custom, usage, habit. (Chiefly in Sc. use.)
1382Wyclif 1 Kings xx. 25 Whanne the kyng hadde sitten vpon his chayer after the consuetude. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 51 Late him blood if alle particuler þingis acorden as vertu, age, conplexioun & consuetude. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 407 The consuetude is of Walche men to ȝiffe water to theire gestes to drynke. 1503Hawes Examp. Virt. iv. 43 To haunte armes was theyr consuetude. 1558Knox First Blast (Arb.) 47 Long consuetude and custome..haue established their authoritie. 1689tr. Buchanan's De Jure Regni 10 Exercitation and consuetude did the same more sagaciously. 1831Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 478 The word was originally not of English but of European consuetude. 1881Blackie Lay Serm. ix. 320 To adjust themselves according to the consuetude and the convenience of time and place.
b. esp. Custom recognized as having legal force; the unwritten law of custom; use and wont.
1384Charter of Lond. in Arnolde Chron. 35 Notwithstonding..conswetude or dome vpon suche maner charturs yeuen. 1496Dives & Paup. vii. xv. (W. de W.) 301/2 Consuetude or custome in lawe posytyue that is mannes lawe is exposytour & termynour of the lawe. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) I. 195 Be na caus..that he culd knaw Of consuetude or ȝit be writtin law. c1575Sir J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 42 Thay sall keip the lawis and consuetudes of the burgh. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 37 Ane Earle, or any man allegeand him to haue the liberties or consuetudes of ane Earle. 1853Card. Wiseman Ess. II. 176 The subjection to, or exemption from, jurisdiction, so completely depended upon consuetude.
2. Familiarity; social intercourse. [So in Latin.]
1803W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. I. 440 Nor would Ariovistus have needed a long consuetude to acquire it [the Belgic language]. 1841–4Emerson Ess., Prud. Wks. (Bohn) I. 101 The sweetness of those affections and consuetudes that grow near us. |