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customable, a.|ˈkʌstəməb(ə)l|
Also 4–6 custum(m)able, 5 -abil, -eable, customabylle, -mable, custymabil, 6 costomable.
[a. OF. cust-, cost-, coustumable, f. custume, coustumer, custom n. and v.: see -able.]
†1. Of things or actions: According to custom; customary, usual. Obs.
1388Wyclif Numb. xxix. 6 With customable [1382 woned] fletynge offryngis. 1460J. Capgrave Chron. 34 Whanne Nylus, the grete ryver, had..descendid into his customable mesure. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 389/1 After hys custumable fashion. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xlix. 5 It was a customable matter in those dayes to sing Psalmes to the harp. 1663Aron-bimn. 65 It is so natural, so customable to us, we have no sense or feeling of it.
†b. Depending upon established custom; = customary 4. Obs.
1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 438 The regiment that they haue dependeth vppon statute lawe..Then vpon common law..Then vpon customable law.
†c. as adv. = customably. Obs.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 3768 Þys synne [of cursing] ys nat dampnable But hyt be seyde custummable. 1567R. Mulcaster Fortescue's De Laud. Leg. (1672) 121 b, In the common bench there are customable v. Justices, or six at the most. 1661Morgan Sph. Gentry iv. iii. 47 The one sort customable wearing their hood on the left shoulder.
†2. Of persons:
a. Accustomed (to), wont (to do a thing);
b. (with agent-noun) Habitual. Obs.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 2014 Ȝyf thou be custumable þar to, þou synnest gretly. 1430Lydg. Chron. Troy iv. xxxii, He was aye customable..for to be vengeable. c1449Pecock Repr. (Rolls) II. iii. xix. 414 King Saul was a wickid customable synner. 1575Coverdale (title), A Christian Exhortacion unto customable Swearers.
3. Liable to custom or duty; dutiable. rare.
1529Oath of Comptroller of Customs in Thynne Animadv. (1865) Notes 131 The thinges customeable which shall cum to the saide porte. 1597Skene Sc. Acts Table s.v. Customers, Customable gudes may nocht be caried foorth of the Realme. 1763Act 3 Geo. III, c. 22 Any Ship..laden with customable or prohibited Goods. 1893Times 17 June 13/5 A return has been presented to the House of Commons of the duty on ‘Customable’ goods..removed, duty paid, from Great Britain to Ireland.
Hence † ˈcustomableness.
1388Wyclif Ecclus. xx. 28 Betere is a theef than the customablenesse of a man, a leesynmongere. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. clvii. 971 The customablenesse of sicknesses. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Customableness, customariness, liableness to pay custom. |