Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Customary.
- n. A book containing the ritual and ceremonial regulations of a monastic house or order; an ordinal or directory for religious houses, or for cathedrals and collegiate churches observing monastic discipline.
Wiktionary
- n. a ritual book containing the forms and ceremonies used in the services of a particular monastery, cathedral or religious order.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Customary.
- n. A manual or ritual of customary devotional exercises.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order)
Examples
“Whatever is left to depend on consuetudinary law, will derive its character from the feelings of the people, among whom the law has been formed and preserved.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
“In England the franchises enjoyed by burgesses, freemen and other consuetudinary constituencies in burghs, were dependent on the character of the burgage-tenure.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
“Gasparri gives as reason that the consuetudinary law never contemplated this case, and hence does not influence it (De Matrimonio, I, nos. 597 and 601).”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
“For consent in its relation to sinful acts, see SIN, and for the consent of the legislative authority in the formation of consuetudinary law, see CUSTOM.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
“This shows that the vicarius urbis was firmly established in the fulness of his office and externally recognized as such; certain consuetudinary rights had even at this date grown up and become accepted.”
“By connecting them with the sanctuary of Jehovah, which stood at the well of Kadesh, he made these functions independent of his person, and thus he laid a firm basis for a consuetudinary law and became the originator of the Torah in”
“The duty being assigned by the law to the priests (Le 1: 6), was construed by consuetudinary practice as an exclusion of all others not connected with the Aaronic family. for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests -- that is, displayed greater alacrity than the priests.”
“The grand pensionary was always supposed to be profoundly versed in civil, ecclesiastical, and consuetudinary law; and in foreign diplomacy.”
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“In many cases, to which, from their circumstantiate nature, neither the written nor the consuetudinary law is directly appli - cable, these are the Responsa Prudentum which supply that un - avoidable deficiency.”
Internet Archive: Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical
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