Customary vs Tradition - What's the difference?
customary | tradition |
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.
A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.
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A commonly held system. (rfex)
The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
* Blackstone
(obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
* Fuller
As nouns the difference between customary and tradition
is that customary is a book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal while tradition is a part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.As an adjective customary
is agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.As a verb tradition is
to transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.customary
English
Noun
(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
* customarilytradition
English
(wikipedia tradition)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.}}
- A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.
Derived terms
* traditional * traditionally * traditionalismSynonyms
* (a commonly held system) doctrineVerb
(en verb)- The following story is traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.