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Customary vs Institution - What's the difference?

customary | institution |

As nouns the difference between customary and institution

is that customary is a book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal while institution is institution.

As an adjective customary

is agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.

customary

English

Noun

(customaries)
  • A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • 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

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    Derived terms

    * customarily

    institution

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia institution) (en noun)
  • An established organisation, especially one dedicated to education, public service, culture or the care of the destitute, poor etc.
  • The building which houses such an organisation.
  • A custom or practice of a society or community, marriage for example.
  • (informal) A person long established with a certain place or position.
  • The act of instituting.
  • (obsolete) That which institutes or instructs; a textbook or system of elements or rules.
  • There is another manuscript, of above three hundred years old, being an institution of physic. — Evelyn.

    Derived terms

    * academic institution * educational institution * research institution