Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- According to custom; in a customary manner; habitually.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Usually.
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- adverb obsolete
usually ; bycustom orhabit
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then when Magdalene abounded in riches, and because delight is fellow to riches and abundance of things; and for so much as she shone in beauty greatly, and in riches, so much the more she submitted her body to delight, and therefore she lost her right name, and was called customably a sinner.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900
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The standard marriage homily, for instance, conceded that it was a "miserable thing" when couples were "of necessity compelled to live together which yet cannot be in quiet together," yet it also admitted that such frustrating circumstances were "most customably every where to be seen" (Klein 15).
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993
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He was therefore left behind for his mind sake, as one that took more thought and care for travelling than dying: having customably in his mouth these sayings: he that hath no grave, is covered with the sky: and, the way to heaven out of all places is of like length and distance.
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And when we had saluted each other, and had spoken these common words, that be customably spoken at the first meeting and acquaintance of strangers, we went thence to my house, and there in my garden upon a bench covered with green turf we sat down talking together.
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This manner and fashion of yearly changing and renewing the occupiers of husbandry, though it be solemn and customably used, to the intent that no man shall be constrained against his will to continue long in that hard and sharp kind of life, yet many of them have such a pleasure and delight in husbandry, that they obtain a longer space of years.
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For why, if they had perfect shame of sin, they should not so customably do it with will and advisement; [96] but they shame more with a foul cloth on their body, than with a foul thought in their soul.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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He loveth us endlessly, and we sin customably, and He sheweth us full mildly, and then we sorrow and mourn discreetly, turning us unto the beholding of
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And saith also that in the night when he heard the cock crow he would weep customably.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900
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