Customary vs Established - What's the difference?
customary | established |
A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.
*1777 , Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland
*:The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.
(establish)
Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 731:
(Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.
As adjectives the difference between customary and established
is that customary is agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual while established is of a religion, church etc: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.As a noun customary
is a book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.As a verb established is
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(customaries)Adjective
(en adjective)Quotations
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 39 *: When two people met for the first time in Diaspar—or even for the hundredth—it was customary to spend an hour or so in an exchange or courtesies before getting down to business, if any.Synonyms
*Derived terms
* customarilyestablished
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(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Anglicanism did manage to strengthen its position in the southern English American colonies after Charles II's restoration (even in cosmopolitan New York), gaining established status in six out of the eventual thirteen.