consuetudinaladj.n.
A. adj.
Pertaining to custom, of use and wont. spec. in Philology, esp. as the epithet of a particular mood in Celtic languages.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > branch of the law > [adjective] > common law or customary
customable?a1439
customary1552
consuetudinary1590
consuetudinal1656
negative1894
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or customary
wonesomec1200
wonec1275
customable1381
customeda1382
useda1382
wonta1382
wonted1408
accustomed1429
vulgarc1430
usualc1444
famosec1449
customalc1450
accustomablec1475
accustomatea1513
frequent1531
accustomary1541
customary1574
frequented1586
consuetudinary1590
ordinary1605
consuetudinal1656
habitual1689
solent1694
regulation1803
usitate1885
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [adjective] > recognized as having legal force
consuetudinary1590
consuetudinal1656
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > mood > [adjective] > other spec.
conditional1530
subcontinuative1530
precatory1610
consuetudinal1728
conjunctive1736
precative1751
requisitive1751
adhortative1815
potential1837
jussive1846
obligative1877
hypothetical1892
permissive1892
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Consuetudinal, accustomed.
1728 H. MacCurtin Elements Irish Lang. ix. 67 (heading) Of the accustomary, or consuetudinal mood.
1808 ‘E. O'C.’ Gram. Gaelic Lang. ii. 72 Consuetudinal or habitual mood. Present. —..I usually am, or I use to be.
1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 66 263 To uproot and destroy the ancient consuetudinal law of the kingdom.
1899 Trans. Philol. Soc. 52 Sometimes -bi seems to be used as a consuetudinal present of is.
1913 J. M. Jones Welsh Gram. 348 The consuetudinal present is in use in that sense in the spoken language.
1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 203 The latter [aspect] denotes the kind of action or state as..iterative, consuetudinal or usitative.
B. n.
a. = consuetudinary n.
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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 > treatise containing
consuetudinarya1513
consuetudinal1817
society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] > containing directions for worship > monastic
reghel-bookc1175
consuetudinarya1513
customarya1676
consuetudinal1817
1817 T. D. Fosbroke Brit. Monachism (ed. 2) (title page) The Consuetudinal of Anchorets and Hermits.
b. Philology. A consuetudinal mood.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > mood > [noun] > other specific moods
conditional1591
potential1706
requisitive1751
conjunctive1795
consuetudinal1808
permissivea1831
obligative1877
jussive1900
1808 ‘E. O'C.’ Gram. Gaelic Lang. ii. 67 The Moods are six; the Indicative, Imperative, Subjunctive, Conditional, Consuetudinal, and Infinitive.
1927 J. R. R. Tolkien in Year's Work Eng. Stud. 1925 34 The closest point of contact is..OE. bið, used as a consuetudinal, a future, and sometimes indistinguishably from the present.
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