Meanings
comparative more accustomary · superlative most accustomary
- Usual; customary.First known use 16th c.
Of every accomplishment accustomary to my sex, I was Mistress.
1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia1 more example
Chriſt in the fifth of Matthew forbiddeth not all kind of ſwearing, but the ordinary and accuſtomary ſwearing then in uſe among the Jewes, and allowed by the Scribes and Phariſees, who erroneouſly conceived, that ſwearing by heaven and earth, or Ieruſalem, or any creature, was no taking Gods name in vain, becauſe in ſuch oaths Gods name was not uſed.
1647, Daniel Featley, The dippers dipt. Or, The Anabaptiſts Duck’d and Plung’d over Head and Ears, at a Diſputation in Southwark […], 5th edition, London: […] N.B. and Richard Royſton […], page 134
Origin
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