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English
Etymology
From accustom + -ary.
Adjective
accustomary (comparative more accustomary, superlative most accustomary)
- Usual; customary.
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: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.
1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia:Of every accomplishment accustomary to my sex, I was Mistress.
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