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English
Etymology
From un- + custom + -ed.
Adjective
uncustomed (not comparable)
- Not subject to customs duties; uncustomable. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- (archaic) On which no customs duties have been paid.
1548, Edward Hall, “The triumphaunt reigne of Kyng Henry the .VIII.”, in The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, page lxv:[…] with them came a great numbre of rascal & pedlers, & Iuellers, and brought ouer hattes and cappes, and diuerse merchaundise vncustomed, all vnder the coloure of the trussery of the Ambassadours.
1630, Giovanni Botero, translated by Robert Johnson, Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world, London: John Haviland, page 102:In the Duchie of Millan, the Governour is very politike and severe, in searching after bookes and uncustomed wares, though it tend but to a paire of stockings […]
- 1760, Tobias Smollett, Continuation of the Complete History of England, London: Richard Baldwin, Volume 3, p. 331,
- a bill was prepared importing a continuation of several laws, namely, the several clauses mentioned of the acts in the fifth and eighth of king George I. against the clandestine running of uncustomed goods
1845, George Payne Rainsford James, chapter 7, in The Smuggler, volume I, London: Smith, Elder, page 159:Every uncustomed spirit, every prohibited ware, physical and intellectual, there finds its mart; and the chief art that is practised is to cheat as cleverly as may be—the chief science learned, is how to defraud without being detected.
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