Obs. or arch. [a. OF. costumer, coustumer, f. costume, coustume CUSTOM.]
1. trans. To render (a thing) customary or usual, to practise habitually; usually pass. to be customary or usual; = ACCUSTOM 1.
1394. Proclam., in York Myst., Introd. 34. Yat yai come furth in array and in ye manere as it has been vsed and customed before yis time.
1483. Cath. Angl., 87. To Custome or to make Custome, guadiare, ritare, jnguadiare.
c. 1500. Melusine, xxi. 114. The patrons made theire recommendacions to god as customed it is.
1626. W. Sclater, Expos. 2 Thess. (1629), 175. Let him iterate it, of intolerable it becomes graue onely … custome it, it proues … insensible.
2. To accustom, habituate (oneself or another).
c. 1510. Barclay, Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570), G ij. Nor custome not thy selfe to boste.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Accoustumer, to custome, to enure. s’Accoustumer, to vse, to custome himselfe.
1633. J. Done, Hist. Septuagint, 92. Those that custome and acost themselves with men Wise and Prudent.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, I. 73. Custom thyself to be invoked by vows.
b. pass. To be accustomed, wont or used (to do something).
1483. Caxton, G. de la Tour, cxxxviii. 195. Yf he be custommed to doo euylle.
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Huon, cxxv. 456. The trybute that is coustomyd to be payed in this citye.
1561. Hollybush, Hom. Apoth., 29 a. He is costumed to eat unnaturall and unkinde meates.
1674. Govt. Tongue, ix. § 15. 170. As a horse [turns] … into that Inn to which he is customed.
c. intr. (in same sense as b). rare.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, I. cxxix. (1869), 68. I hadde not customed to be armed.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., V. ii. 7. On a Bridge he custometh to fight.
3. trans. To pay duty or toll on; to pass through the custom-house.
1494. Act 11 Hen. VII., c. 13. Every Mare so shipped ere they be customed.
c. 1592. Marlowe, Jew of Malta, I. 1. Thy ships are safe … the merchants … have sent me to know whether yourself will come and custom them.
1599. Hakluyt, Voy., II. 238. When they have customed their goods.
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., 152. They search not the shippes, for wooll, or gudes not custumed.
1720. Lond. Gaz., No. 5851/3. If any person shall Custom any Goods of any Stranger … whereby the King loseth his Custom.
b. To levy duty or toll upon. rare.
1611. Heywood, Golden Age, IV. i. We custom them, And they enrich our coffers.
4. To bestow one’s custom on; to deal with (a person) or at (a shop); to frequent as a customer.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., II. xiii. § 7. 52. If a shooemaker should haue no shooes in his shoppe, but onely worke, as hee is bespoken, hee should bee weakely customed.
1639. J. Mayne, City Match, I. v. 19.
| Did we here finde you out, customd your House, | |
| And helpt away your victuals which had else | |
| Laine mouldy on your hands? |
1681. P. Rycaut, trans. Gracian’s Critick, 121. When they perceived the Shop so well customed by the famous Themistocles.
