Meanings
comparative more customarily · superlative most customarily
- frequencyUnder normal circumstances, normally.
On a day in the summer which began our sixth year Josella and I went down to the coast together, traveling there in the half-tracked vehicle that I customarily used now that the roads were growing so bad.
1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 2411 more example
Among the most important differences is the availability in some instances of what Sokal and Camin (1965) have called chronistic information, which refers to the times of events in phylogeny, such as times of cladogenesis, chronological sequences of populations, and geologic ranges of taxa. Obtaining even as much chronistic information as neontologists customarily have, such as precise contemporaneity of populations, may be impossible if the area of study is widespread.
1970, Ellis Leon Yochelson, Proceedings of the North American Paleontological Convention, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, September 5-7, 1969Synonyms: usually
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn the customary manner; as is custom.
adverbUnder normal circumstances, normally.
Origin
Translations
Arabic عَادَةً
- عَادَةً (ʕādatan)in the customary way
Catalan consuetudinàriament
- consuetudinàriamentin the customary way
Esperanto kutime
- kutimein the customary way
Irish go hiondúil
- go hiondúilin the customary way
Portuguese costumeiramente
- costumeiramentein the customary way
Russian обы́чно, привы́чно
- обы́чно (obýčno)in the customary way
- привы́чно (privýčno)in the customary way
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