custumal

[kuhs-choo-muhl]

noun

1. a customary.

custumal

/ ˈkʌstjʊməl /

noun

1. another word for customary customary

Word History and Origins

Origin of custumal¹

1375–1425; 1560–70 for current sense; late Middle English (as adj.) < Medieval Latin custumālis, a Latinization of Old French costumel customary, usual, equivalent to costume custom + -el -al ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of custumal¹

C16: from Medieval Latin custumālis relating to _custom

Example Sentences

The document, which is evidently a private compilation, seems to be a custumal, or coustumier, of a district, or some considerable portion of the country.

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Mr. Smirke contributes a valuable notice of the Custumal of Bleadon,—Mr. Newton, Notes on the Sculptures at Wilton,—Mr. Hawkins on The Mints of Wiltshire; and not the least interesting portion of the volume consists of notices respecting Silbury and Avebury, by the late excellent and lamented Dean of Hereford.

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The Custumal published among the Statutes speaks of the personal freedom of all Kentish-men, although it has to concern itself specially with the gavelkind tenantry.

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Whether we take the Domesday Survey, or the Hundred Rolls, or the Custumal of some monastic institution, or the extent of lands belonging to some deceased lay lord, we shall again and again meet the same typical arrangement.

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Rochester Custumal, 4, a: 'De omnibus decem jugis debent scotare ad donum domini ville et ad servicium domini Regis.'

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