customable

American  

[kuhs-tuh-muh-buhl] / ˈkʌs tə mə bəl /

adjective

1. subject to customs or duties; dutiable.

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customable British  

/ ˈkʌstəməbəl /

adjective

1. subject to customs

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Other Word Forms

• customableness noun

Etymology

Origin of customable

First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English word from Anglo-French word c(o)ustumable. See custom, -able

Example Sentences

This holy bishop did open his discourse right merrily, for in a pleasant manner he thus begins his letter: 'And, sir, if it be your pleasure, as it is, that I shall play the fool in my customable manner when Forest shall suffer, I would wish my stage stood near unto Forest; for I would endeavor myself so to content the people that therewith I might also convert Forest, God so helping.'

From Project Gutenberg

In all this kingdome—yea, and in the Ilands Philippinas—it is a customable vse, that the husband doth giue dowrie vnto the wife with whom he doth marrie; and at such time as they doe ioyne in matrimonie, the father of the bride doth make a great feast in his owne house, and doth inuite to the same the father and mother, kinsfolkes and friends, of his sonne in lawe.

From Project Gutenberg

"A Christian exhortation unto customable swearers," 1575.

From Project Gutenberg

In the Statute of the 34 and 35 of Henry VIII. a pin and web in the eye is recited among the “customable diseases,” which honest persons, not being surgeons, might treat with herbs, roots, and waters, with the knowledge of whose nature God had endowed them.

From Project Gutenberg

“The ancient severity of our Statute Book has long since been modified, and the worst that can now befall ‘idle persons and vagabonds, such as wake on the night and sleep on the day, and haunt customable taverns and ale-houses, and routs about; and no man wot from whence they come ne whither they go,’ is a brief period of hard labour under the provisions of the Vagrant Act. 

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