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custodial, a. and n.|kʌˈstəʊdɪəl|
[f. L. custōdia custody + -al1.]
A. adj.
1. Relating to custody or guardianship.
1772Letter to Bp. Rochester 2 (R.) The custodial charges and government [of a church]. 1841L'pool. Jrnl. 4 Dec., After much learned argument as to the custodial relations of illegitimate children. 1887Scribn. Mag. II. 147 Custodial duties.
2. Special collocation. custodial sentence, a judicial sentence requiring an offender to be held in custody (esp. in prison or at a detention centre), as opp. to a fine, community service, etc.
1953Tentative Draft of Revision of Rules Courts of N.J. (Supreme Court New Jersey) 142 In all *custodial sentences the prisoner shall receive credit on the term imposed for any time he may have served in custody between his arrest and the imposition of sentence. 1965Criminal Law Rev. Nov. 657 A fresh proposal for the custodial training of adults..(a) All custodial sentences of less than six months to be abolished, since no effective training is thought possible in this length of time. 1971R. Cross Punishment, Prison & Public iv. 187 The courts should be empowered to pass fixed-term custodial sentences on young offenders between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one. 1986Church Times 24 Oct. 11/1 What are prisons for? What do we expect from them? How do we handle long-term custodial sentences?
B. n. A vessel for preserving sacred objects, as the host, relics, etc. (Cf. F. custode.)
1860Reade Cloister & H. lxii. (D.), The priest..then took the custodial, and showed the patient the Corpus Domini within. 1887Hutchinson tr. Viresalingam's Fortune's Wheel 65 Harisastri picked up his custodial and withdrew.
Add:[2.] custodial care orig. U.S., the supervision and care of mentally or physically infirm persons in an appropriate institution.
1874Jrnl. Social Sci. (N.Y.) July 61 An obligation rests upon the State to direct..that the restraint should be properly and humanely exercised, and the *custodial care combined with..remedial measures. 1914H. H. Goddard Feeble-Mindedness x. 578 These..technically called imbeciles, also require more or less custodial care. 1949A. Deutsch Mentally Ill in Amer. (ed. 2) xii. 233 Chronics, being for the most part beyond cure, require only custodial care and could be accommodated much more cheaply in asylums. 1986Guardian 16 July 13/1 Any..longstay institution with traditions of custodial care over patients who are particularly vulnerable.
▸ Designating the person who has been granted legal custody of a child (usually one of the parents).
1929Indiana Appeals Court Rep. (Lexis) 97 15 Appellant, at the time of the accidental death of her fourteen-year-old son, was his sole custodial parent. 1976Times 13 Oct. 12/4 The custodial parent had to allow access to the child; the non-custodial parent was given a right to visit. 1992Wall St. Jrnl. 4 Nov. b1/2 Many think custodial fathers are usually well-to-do. True,..average income is much higher in father-only families than in families where the mother is the custodial parent. 2006Sunday Tasmanian (Nexis) 29 Oct. 1 Tasmania's custodial grandparents are still waiting to get equity with foster carers four years after being promised it by the state and federal governments. |