usualadj.

Brit.

/ˈjuːʒʊəl/, U.S.

/ˈjuʒ(əw)əl/

Forms: Middle English–1600s vsual, vsuall (1500s vsial, wsuall), 1500s– usual (1500s–1600s -all, 1600s usewal); Middle English–1600s vsuale, usuale; Middle English vsu-, usuell.

Etymology: < Old French usual (1298 in Godefroy), usuel (French usuel ), or < Latin (post-classical) ūsuālis (whence Italian usuale , Spanish usual , Portuguese usual , Provençal uzual ), < ūsus use n.

1. That is in ordinary use or observance; having general currency, validity, or force; commonly observed or practised; current, prevalent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > general or prevalent

commona1325

generala1393

usual1396

popular?a1425

riveda1513

vulgarc1550

current1563

afloat1571

widespread1582

penny-rife1606

catholic1607

spacious1610

epidemical1614

epidemial1616

epidemic1617

prevailent1623

regnant1623

fashionablea1627

wide-spreading1655

endemical1658

prevalent1658

endemiala1682

obtaining1682

prevailing1682

endemious1684

sterling1696

running1697

(as) common as dirt (also muck)1737

prevailant1794

exoteric1814

endemic1852

widish1864

prolate1882

going1909

1396 in Scottish Antiq. XIV. 218 xix. marcis of vsuale moneth.

1396–7 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1907) XXII. 296 Oure usuel presthod þe qwich began in Rome.

c1450 Godstow Reg. 553 Robert yaf to him xij. shillings of vsuall money.

1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 43 Preamble Noe gretter fees..but such [as] at this tyme be usuell.

1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xx. f. 36^v F. G...payeth vnto the lordes at the termes their vsuels, sixtene shillynges.

1575 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 24 Fortie markis wsuall money of Scotland.

1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. xi. 54 In this court [of Chancery] the vsuall and proper forme of pleading of England is not vsed.

1620 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 368 Tua vsuall termis in the yeir, Witsonday and Martimes.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 278 He never goes up thither but at the usual hours, unless it be [etc.].

1747 G. Berkeley Let. in Wks. (1871) IV. 315 Pray give him the usual fee for the best lawyer.

1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 683/1 Usual terms, a phrase in the common law practice, which means pleading issuably, rejoining gratis, and taking short notice of trial.

1855 Poultry Chron. 2 580/2 At half the usual rates of charge.

1897 Daily News 10 Apr. 7/2 Stay of execution for a fortnight upon ‘the usual terms’.

†2.

a. Of a year: Solar. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > reckoning of time > [adjective] > solar or determined by the course of the sun

usuala1387

solar1594

solary1614

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 37 For þe Iewes in tretys and couenauntes haueþ a ȝere vsual, and bygineþ in Ianuarie.

1398 J. Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ix. iii. (Tollem. MS.) Some ȝere is clepid usuale, as is þe ȝere of þe sonne.

†b. Of a month: Calendar. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [adjective] > calendar

usual1594

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xlv. f. 170^v The Vsuall moneth is that number of dayes which are set downe in our common Kalenders.

(a) Ordinarily used; constantly or customarily employed; in common use; ordinary, customary.

ΘΚΠ

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

c1444 R. Pecock Donet 34 He must take þe eukarist, not as oþire comoun or vsual meete and drynk.

a1479 W. Caxton Epil. Boeth. 92 b Maister Geffry Chaucer hath translated this sayd werke oute of latyn in to oure vsual and moder tonge.

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 621/1 He turned the vsuall englyshe woordes of churche, priest, and penaunce, to congregacyon, senior, and repentaunce.

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xl A Consuetudynary or vsuall boke of the churche.

1579 W. Fulke Refut. Rastels Confut. in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 781 Thou perhaps wilt say, my bread is common and vsual bread.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 673 From whence there is an usuall passage over into Ireland.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 37 Earth-quakes, which (according to the usuall scandall)..were ascribed as a punishment to the Christians.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 313 They..Rather accuse him [sc. God] under usual names, Fortune and Fate.

1729 T. Innes Crit. Ess. Anc. Inhabitants Scotl. II. 421 He reforms the bard Forchern's story of it (according to the usual custom of posterior bards).

1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 24/2 What was Selabut's usual method of attesting papers as a witness?

1797 Monthly Mag. 3 549 The sheriff shall make..proclamations..at or near to the most usual door of the church, or chapel.

1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 31 He began by the usual expressions of friendship.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ix. 61 We reached the place by the usual route.

1883 Manch. Examiner 30 Oct. 8/4 Beer in the usual stately German flagons with pewter covers.

(b) Frequently in usual channels [channel n.¹ 12a] ; usual office(s): see office n. 7b.

ΚΠ

1905 Hansard Commons 16 May 500 In reply to the Question of the hon. Member for Waterford, I have to ask him to communicate with my right hon. friend near me through the usual channels.

1946 Erskine May's Law of Parl. (ed. 14) xii. 245 The Government Chief Whip..together with the Chief Whips of the other parties, constitutes what is known as the ‘usual channels’, through which communications pass as to business arrangements and other matters which concern the convenience of Members as a whole.

1975 J. P. Morgan House of Lords & Labour Govt. viii. 213 The usual channels had collapsed and, in the absence of the customary arrangements, the Government could only hope that they might limit discussion by imposing a guillotine.

†b. Habitually done or made. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. sig. Aij^v Often reading, and vsual marking the epistles of Tullie.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 2 Sundry Gentlemen, that haue usual resort to my house.

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. iii. i. 81 One thing onlie I mislike in them, and that is their vsuall going into Italie.

c. Of persons: Commonly employed or serving in a particular capacity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or customary > in respect of people in employment, etc.

ordinarc1400

usual1600

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 35 Where is our vsuall manager Of mirth?

1926 N.E.D. at Usual Mod. He sent the money by his usual messenger. Our usual postman did not come to-day.

a. That ordinarily happens, occurs, or is to be found; such as is commonly met with or observed in ordinary practice or experience; common, wonted.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > ordinary or of usual occurrence

naturala1425

usual?1577

ordinary1594

vulgar1607

bog-standard1962

?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 241 Gods providence in shewinge mercye to his servauntes is alwayes vsiall.

1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 248 It was a verie vsuall thing in the East countrie, for a man to haue two or three wiues.

1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 8 So is it likewise an usuall thing in..our life, that we..study alwayes to [etc.].

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 122 The usuall meeting of men at Church, or at a publique Shew, in usuall numbers.

1759 R. Brown Compl. Farmer 91 The usual signs that precede their swarming.

1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 61 And th' old..earth has had her shaking fits More frequent, and forgone her usual rest.

1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus III. v A table groaning under a repast not very usual on the boards of a prison.

1855 J. Phillips Man. Geol. 204 The usual hardening of sandstone and shale, carbonization of coal, &c., occur.

b. Customary on the part of a person or persons to do something.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or customary > to or with a person > customary for a person to do something

usual1605

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence ix. 310 It hath..grown somwhat vsuall in England, to giue vnto children..the surnames of their Godfathers.

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 183 It is usuall with all the Gauls..to constraine Travellers (though unwilling) to stay.

1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 10. ⁋5 It was usual for him to shew the Delicacy of his Taste by [etc.].

1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 312 It is very usual to meet with those.

a1825 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVII. 36/1 In most Pigeon-houses it is usual to have a Salt~cat.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. vii. 506 It is not usual for..[a] woman to turn it into drollery.

c. Common or habitual to a person or thing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or customary > to or with a person

rifea1450

usual1663

1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §18 Several shapes and effects usual to Fountains of pleasure.

1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour i. i. 1 Why truth on't is, these early Sallies are not usual to me.

d. as (or than) usual, as (or than) is or was customary or habitual. (Cf. usually adv. 1b) as per usual: see per prep. 3g.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > in habitual or customary use [phrase] > as a habit or custom > as is usual or customary

as use is1423

as (or than) usual1716

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > in habitual or customary use [phrase] > usually or ordinarily > as is usually the case

as (or than) usual1716

(as) per usual1869

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 114 Liuing things cast into that caue, and held there for longer time then is vsuall.]

1716 J. Addison Free-holder No. 22. ⁋2 Our Conversation opened, as usual, upon the Weather.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pulse When the Strokes are much smaller than usual.

1754 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1812) I. viii. 409 This war was, as usual, no less feeble in its operations, than..frivolous in its cause and object.

1795 Gentleman's Mag. 65 539/2 The blights were this year..more destructive than usual.

1854 Poultry Chron. 2 348/2 The poultry department was, as usual, the principal attraction.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xiv. 130 The huddled buildings looked lower than usual.

1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights II. ix. 405 They had been two days together, as usual; the usualness is a great power.

1924 Amer. Mercury Apr. 505/2 He is, as usual, on the wrong track, and pursuing a chimera.

†5. usual fruit n. = usufruit n., usufruct n. Scottish.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > right of temporary possession

usufruit1478

usual fruit1558

usufructa1646

1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 48^v God wold not suffer that the commoditie and vsuall frute..shulde passe to an other [tribe].

†6.

a. Of persons: Customary, regular. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > that does something habitually

customablec1449

accustomablec1475

inure1475

usual1579

frequent1611

habituated1619

customary1629

regular1782

habitual1825

1579 in Southampton Court Leet Rec. (1906) ii. 167 Owen symons is a vsuall convayor of wood beyond the seas.

†b. Habitually resorting. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 27 The devill perswades sum carnall and viciouse parsons that there tyme ys well spent, beinge vsuall in the taverne.

7. absol.

a. the (his, etc.) usual, what is usual, customary, or frequent (esp. with a person or persons).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usual course, condition, etc. > of a person or thing

the (his, etc.) usual1876

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxv. 22 To be an unusual young man means for the most part to get a difficult mastery over the usual.

1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 189 Nothing in Naples is so clean as the horses' harness, and to-day the drivers outdid their usual.

1897 Daily News 23 Dec. 3/5 Coroner: How much whisky did he drink?—Witness: Eighteen half quarterns a night..was his usual.

b. colloquial. Customary state of health.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > [noun] > usual state of

usual1887

1887 A. S. Swan Gates of Eden xx Aunt Susan is in her usual, I know.

Derivatives

ˈusualness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usualness

community1595

commonness1597

usualness1653

1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme i. x. 30 The usualnesse of such dangers have made them loose the sense of the danger.

1706 S. Clarke Disc. Nat. Relig. 351 'Tis only usualness or unusualness that makes the distinction.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Frequentness, oftenness; usualness.

1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights II. ix. 405 They had been two days together, as usual; the usualness is a great power.

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单词	usual
释义	usualadj. Brit. /ˈjuːʒʊəl/, U.S. /ˈjuʒ(əw)əl/ Forms: Middle English–1600s vsual, vsuall (1500s vsial, wsuall), 1500s– usual (1500s–1600s -all, 1600s usewal); Middle English–1600s vsuale, usuale; Middle English vsu-, usuell. Etymology: < Old French usual (1298 in Godefroy), usuel (French usuel ), or < Latin (post-classical) ūsuālis (whence Italian usuale , Spanish usual , Portuguese usual , Provençal uzual ), < ūsus use n. 1. That is in ordinary use or observance; having general currency, validity, or force; commonly observed or practised; current, prevalent. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > general or prevalent commona1325 generala1393 usual1396 popular?a1425 riveda1513 vulgarc1550 current1563 afloat1571 widespread1582 penny-rife1606 catholic1607 spacious1610 epidemical1614 epidemial1616 epidemic1617 prevailent1623 regnant1623 fashionablea1627 wide-spreading1655 endemical1658 prevalent1658 endemiala1682 obtaining1682 prevailing1682 endemious1684 sterling1696 running1697 (as) common as dirt (also muck)1737 prevailant1794 exoteric1814 endemic1852 widish1864 prolate1882 going1909 1396 in Scottish Antiq. XIV. 218 xix. marcis of vsuale moneth. 1396–7 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1907) XXII. 296 Oure usuel presthod þe qwich began in Rome. c1450 Godstow Reg. 553 Robert yaf to him xij. shillings of vsuall money. 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 43 Preamble Noe gretter fees..but such [as] at this tyme be usuell. 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xx. f. 36^v F. G...payeth vnto the lordes at the termes their vsuels, sixtene shillynges. 1575 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 24 Fortie markis wsuall money of Scotland. 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. xi. 54 In this court [of Chancery] the vsuall and proper forme of pleading of England is not vsed. 1620 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 368 Tua vsuall termis in the yeir, Witsonday and Martimes. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 278 He never goes up thither but at the usual hours, unless it be [etc.]. 1747 G. Berkeley Let. in Wks. (1871) IV. 315 Pray give him the usual fee for the best lawyer. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 683/1 Usual terms, a phrase in the common law practice, which means pleading issuably, rejoining gratis, and taking short notice of trial. 1855 Poultry Chron. 2 580/2 At half the usual rates of charge. 1897 Daily News 10 Apr. 7/2 Stay of execution for a fortnight upon ‘the usual terms’. †2. a. Of a year: Solar. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > [adjective] > solar or determined by the course of the sun usuala1387 solar1594 solary1614 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 37 For þe Iewes in tretys and couenauntes haueþ a ȝere vsual, and bygineþ in Ianuarie. 1398 J. Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ix. iii. (Tollem. MS.) Some ȝere is clepid usuale, as is þe ȝere of þe sonne. †b. Of a month: Calendar. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [adjective] > calendar usual1594 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xlv. f. 170^v The Vsuall moneth is that number of dayes which are set downe in our common Kalenders. 3. a. (a) Ordinarily used; constantly or customarily employed; in common use; ordinary, customary. ΘΚΠ 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 c1444 R. Pecock Donet 34 He must take þe eukarist, not as oþire comoun or vsual meete and drynk. a1479 W. Caxton Epil. Boeth. 92 b Maister Geffry Chaucer hath translated this sayd werke oute of latyn in to oure vsual and moder tonge. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 621/1 He turned the vsuall englyshe woordes of churche, priest, and penaunce, to congregacyon, senior, and repentaunce. 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xl A Consuetudynary or vsuall boke of the churche. 1579 W. Fulke Refut. Rastels Confut. in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 781 Thou perhaps wilt say, my bread is common and vsual bread. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 673 From whence there is an usuall passage over into Ireland. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 37 Earth-quakes, which (according to the usuall scandall)..were ascribed as a punishment to the Christians. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 313 They..Rather accuse him [sc. God] under usual names, Fortune and Fate. View more context for this quotation 1729 T. Innes Crit. Ess. Anc. Inhabitants Scotl. II. 421 He reforms the bard Forchern's story of it (according to the usual custom of posterior bards). 1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 24/2 What was Selabut's usual method of attesting papers as a witness? 1797 Monthly Mag. 3 549 The sheriff shall make..proclamations..at or near to the most usual door of the church, or chapel. 1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 31 He began by the usual expressions of friendship. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ix. 61 We reached the place by the usual route. 1883 Manch. Examiner 30 Oct. 8/4 Beer in the usual stately German flagons with pewter covers. (b) Frequently in usual channels [channel n.¹ 12a] ; usual office(s): see office n. 7b. ΚΠ 1905 Hansard Commons 16 May 500 In reply to the Question of the hon. Member for Waterford, I have to ask him to communicate with my right hon. friend near me through the usual channels. 1946 Erskine May's Law of Parl. (ed. 14) xii. 245 The Government Chief Whip..together with the Chief Whips of the other parties, constitutes what is known as the ‘usual channels’, through which communications pass as to business arrangements and other matters which concern the convenience of Members as a whole. 1975 J. P. Morgan House of Lords & Labour Govt. viii. 213 The usual channels had collapsed and, in the absence of the customary arrangements, the Government could only hope that they might limit discussion by imposing a guillotine. †b. Habitually done or made. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. sig. Aij^v Often reading, and vsual marking the epistles of Tullie. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 2 Sundry Gentlemen, that haue usual resort to my house. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. iii. i. 81 One thing onlie I mislike in them, and that is their vsuall going into Italie. c. Of persons: Commonly employed or serving in a particular capacity. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or customary > in respect of people in employment, etc. ordinarc1400 usual1600 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 35 Where is our vsuall manager Of mirth? View more context for this quotation 1926 N.E.D. at Usual Mod. He sent the money by his usual messenger. Our usual postman did not come to-day. 4. a. That ordinarily happens, occurs, or is to be found; such as is commonly met with or observed in ordinary practice or experience; common, wonted. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > ordinary or of usual occurrence naturala1425 usual?1577 ordinary1594 vulgar1607 bog-standard1962 ?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 241 Gods providence in shewinge mercye to his servauntes is alwayes vsiall. 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 248 It was a verie vsuall thing in the East countrie, for a man to haue two or three wiues. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 8 So is it likewise an usuall thing in..our life, that we..study alwayes to [etc.]. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 122 The usuall meeting of men at Church, or at a publique Shew, in usuall numbers. 1759 R. Brown Compl. Farmer 91 The usual signs that precede their swarming. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 61 And th' old..earth has had her shaking fits More frequent, and forgone her usual rest. 1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus III. v A table groaning under a repast not very usual on the boards of a prison. 1855 J. Phillips Man. Geol. 204 The usual hardening of sandstone and shale, carbonization of coal, &c., occur. b. Customary on the part of a person or persons to do something. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or customary > to or with a person > customary for a person to do something usual1605 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence ix. 310 It hath..grown somwhat vsuall in England, to giue vnto children..the surnames of their Godfathers. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 183 It is usuall with all the Gauls..to constraine Travellers (though unwilling) to stay. 1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 10. ⁋5 It was usual for him to shew the Delicacy of his Taste by [etc.]. 1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 312 It is very usual to meet with those. a1825 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVII. 36/1 In most Pigeon-houses it is usual to have a Salt~cat. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. vii. 506 It is not usual for..[a] woman to turn it into drollery. c. Common or habitual to a person or thing. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or customary > to or with a person rifea1450 usual1663 1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §18 Several shapes and effects usual to Fountains of pleasure. 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour i. i. 1 Why truth on't is, these early Sallies are not usual to me. d. as (or than) usual, as (or than) is or was customary or habitual. (Cf. usually adv. 1b) as per usual: see per prep. 3g. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > in habitual or customary use [phrase] > as a habit or custom > as is usual or customary as use is1423 as (or than) usual1716 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > in habitual or customary use [phrase] > usually or ordinarily > as is usually the case as (or than) usual1716 (as) per usual1869 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 114 Liuing things cast into that caue, and held there for longer time then is vsuall.] 1716 J. Addison Free-holder No. 22. ⁋2 Our Conversation opened, as usual, upon the Weather. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pulse When the Strokes are much smaller than usual. 1754 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1812) I. viii. 409 This war was, as usual, no less feeble in its operations, than..frivolous in its cause and object. 1795 Gentleman's Mag. 65 539/2 The blights were this year..more destructive than usual. 1854 Poultry Chron. 2 348/2 The poultry department was, as usual, the principal attraction. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xiv. 130 The huddled buildings looked lower than usual. 1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights II. ix. 405 They had been two days together, as usual; the usualness is a great power. 1924 Amer. Mercury Apr. 505/2 He is, as usual, on the wrong track, and pursuing a chimera. †5. usual fruit n. = usufruit n., usufruct n. Scottish. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > right of temporary possession usufruit1478 usual fruit1558 usufructa1646 1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 48^v God wold not suffer that the commoditie and vsuall frute..shulde passe to an other [tribe]. †6. a. Of persons: Customary, regular. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > that does something habitually customablec1449 accustomablec1475 inure1475 usual1579 frequent1611 habituated1619 customary1629 regular1782 habitual1825 1579 in Southampton Court Leet Rec. (1906) ii. 167 Owen symons is a vsuall convayor of wood beyond the seas. †b. Habitually resorting. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 27 The devill perswades sum carnall and viciouse parsons that there tyme ys well spent, beinge vsuall in the taverne. 7. absol. a. the (his, etc.) usual, what is usual, customary, or frequent (esp. with a person or persons). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usual course, condition, etc. > of a person or thing the (his, etc.) usual1876 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxv. 22 To be an unusual young man means for the most part to get a difficult mastery over the usual. 1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 189 Nothing in Naples is so clean as the horses' harness, and to-day the drivers outdid their usual. 1897 Daily News 23 Dec. 3/5 Coroner: How much whisky did he drink?—Witness: Eighteen half quarterns a night..was his usual. b. colloquial. Customary state of health. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > [noun] > usual state of usual1887 1887 A. S. Swan Gates of Eden xx Aunt Susan is in her usual, I know. Derivatives ˈusualness n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usualness community1595 commonness1597 usualness1653 1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme i. x. 30 The usualnesse of such dangers have made them loose the sense of the danger. 1706 S. Clarke Disc. Nat. Relig. 351 'Tis only usualness or unusualness that makes the distinction. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Frequentness, oftenness; usualness. 1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights II. ix. 405 They had been two days together, as usual; the usualness is a great power. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1387
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