consuetudinous
adjEtymology From Latin cōnsuētūdō (oblique stem cōnsuētūdin-) + English -ous, from cōnsuēscō + -tūdō, from con- + suēscō. By surface analysis, consuetude + -ous.
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Of or pertaining to consuetude; of an unwritten law established by usage, derived by immemorial custom from antiquity.
- Sensual man, so attached to externals, etches the letter on his memory, clings fast to the consuetudinous, and cannot disengage himself from his delusive conceits.1838, Moses Mendelssohn, “Mendelssohn's Jerusalem”, in Jerusalem; a treatise on ecclesiastical authority and Judaism, page 261:
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consuetudinary