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consuetudinarily en · ADV

Etymology

From consuetudinary + -ly.

Meanings

1. (Scotland) In a manner that pertains to consuetude; customarily; traditionally.
   • Affirmative as consuetudinarily, now shoo! 1949, Paul J. Phelan, A Time to Laugh: A Risible Reader by Catholic Writers, Longmans Green Publishing, page 274
   • Consuetudinarily, the term May Fourth Movement is used by scholars as synonym for the New Cultural Movement, New Poetry Movement or Literary Revolution. 1991,國立臺灣師範大學文學院, 敎學與硏究 - Issues 13-15, The University of California Press, page 284
   • The number of variables studied in urine and plasma, exceeding what is usual in similar investigations resulted from increasing awareness that the actions of diuretics upon variables other than those consuetudinarily considered may be of clinical importance or have characteristics which are helpful in explaining the mechanisms of action of diuretics. 1985, A. J Reyes • M Velasco • L Alcocer, Progress in Pharmacology - Volume 6, Fischer Publishing, page 93
   • If a practice which conformed with those three requirements had been conducted consuetudinarily, the court was authorised to infer from this practice the common conviction of the people. 2007, Amanda Perreau-Saussine & James Bernard Murphy, The Nature of Customary Law: Legal, Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, page 136
   • The first occasion in which the status distinction between the free and unfree was introduced to Japan but rather as that in which that institution already existing consuetudinarily in the pie-ritsuryo age was codified for the first time. 1976, Tōhō Gakkai, Acta Asiatica: Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern Culture - Volumes 30-31, Indiana University Press, page 95
   • To use the more picturesque term from Dr. Woods' paper, consuetudinarily I admitted that one may smoke without being despicable, and that compared with the comfort, the soothing and solacing influence balmily spread over the world at large. 1899, American Medical Association, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume 32, The Michigan University Press, page 870
   • So that the mode consuetudinarily now adopted for assessing poor's rates for the real poor, is borrowed from that part of the Scots acts which relates solely to the provision to be made for sending idle vagrants, able to work, to those correction-houses where they were to have been compelled to labour. 1802, The Great Britain Board of Agriculture - The Reverend Mr. Charles Findlater: Minister of the Parish of Newlands, in the Country of Peebles, General View of the Agriculture of the Country of Peebles with Various Suggestions as to the Means both of the Local and General Improvement of Agriculture, Princeton University Press, page 230

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