Customary vs Mutual - What's the difference?
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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.
Having the same relationship, each to each other.
Reciprocal.
Possessed in common.
Owned by the members.
Customary is a related term of mutual.
As nouns the difference between customary and mutual
is that customary is a book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal while mutual is a mutual fund, etc.As adjectives the difference between customary and mutual
is that customary is agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual while mutual is having the same relationship, each to each other.customary
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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
* customarilymutual
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* (abbreviation) * (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- They were mutual enemies.
- They had mutual fear of each other.
- They had a mutual love of the same woman.