单词 | consuetude |
释义 | consuetuden. 1. a. Custom, usage, habit. (Chiefly in Scottish use.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] i-wunec888 wise971 gatec1175 lawc1175 manners?c1225 wone?c1225 usec1325 hauntc1330 use1340 rotec1350 consuetude1382 customancea1393 usancea1393 practicc1395 guisea1400 usagea1400 wonta1400 spacec1400 accustomancec1405 customheada1425 urec1425 wontsomenessc1425 accustomc1440 wonningc1440 practice1502 habitudec1598 habiture1598 habit1605 wonting1665 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Kings xx. 25 Whanne the kyng hadde sitten vpon his chayer after the consuetude. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 51 Late him blood if alle particuler þingis acorden as vertu, age, conplexioun & consuetude. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 407 The consuetude is of Walche men to ȝiffe water to theire gestes to drynke. ?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. bb.ii To haunte armes was theyr consuetude. 1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 50 Long consuetude and custome..haue established their authoritie. 1680 ‘Philalethes’ tr. G. Buchanan De Jure Regni apud Scotos 20 Exercitation and consuetude did the same more sagaciously. 1834 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 215 The word was originally not of English, but of European consuetude. 1881 J. S. Blackie Lay Serm. ix. 320 To adjust themselves according to the consuetude and the convenience of time and place. b. esp. Custom recognized as having legal force; the unwritten law of custom; use and wont. ΘΚΠ society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > common and customary eeOE customc1300 common lawa1325 consuetude1496 custom law1616 folk-law1884 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > custom of a society or group > recognized as having legal force usagec1325 usance?c1400 consuetude1496 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) vii. xv. 301/2 Consuetude or custome in lawe posytyue that is mannes lawe is exposytour & termynour of the lawe. c1503 tr. Charter of London in R. Arnold Chron. f. xiv/2 Notwtstonding..conswetude or dome vpon suche maner charturs yeuen. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 195 Be na caus..that he culd knaw Of consuetude or ȝit be writtin law. c1575 J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 42 Thay sall keip the lawis and consuetudes of the burgh. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 37 Ane Earle, or any man allegeand him to haue the liberties or consuetudes of ane Earle. 1853 N. Wiseman Ess. II. 176 The subjection to, or exemption from, jurisdiction, so completely depended upon consuetude. 2. Familiarity; social intercourse. [So in Latin.] ΚΠ 1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 1 440 Nor would Ariovistus have needed a long consuetude to acquire it [the Belgic language]. 1841 R. W. Emerson Prudence in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 242 The sweetness of those affections and consuetudes that grow near us. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1382 |
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