a. Also 4–6 custum(m)able, 5 -abil, -eable, customabylle, -mable, custymabil, 6 costomable. [a. OF. cust-, cost-, coustumable, f. custume, coustumer, CUSTOM sb. and v.: see -ABLE.]
† 1. Of things or actions: According to custom; customary, usual. Obs.
1388. Wyclif, Numb. xxix. 6. With customable [1382 woned] fletynge offryngis.
1460. Capgrave, Chron., 34. Whanne Nylus, the grete ryver, had … descendid into his customable mesure.
1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 389/1. After hys custumable fashion.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xlix. 5. It was a customable matter in those dayes to sing Psalmes to the harp.
1663. Aron-bimn., 65. It is so natural, so customable to us, we have no sense or feeling of it.
† b. Depending upon established custom; = CUSTOMARY 4. Obs.
1580. Lyly, Euphues (Arb.), 438. The regiment that they haue dependeth vppon statute lawe … Then vpon common law … Then vpon customable law.
† c. as adv. = CUSTOMABLY. Obs.
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 3768. Þys synne [of cursing] ys nat dampnable But hyt be seyde custummable.
1567. R. Mulcaster, Fortescue’s De Land. Leg. (1672), 121 b. In the common bench there are customable v. Justices, or six at the most.
1661. Morgan, Sph. Gentry, IV. iii. 47. The one sort customable wearing their Hood on the left shoulder.
† 2. Of persons: a. Accustomed (to), wont (to do a thing); b. (with agent-noun) Habitual. Obs.
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 2014. Ȝyf thou be custumable þar to, þou synnest gretly.
1430. Lydg., Chron. Troy, IV. xxxii. He was aye customable … for to be vengeable.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr. (Rolls), II. III. xix. 414. King Saul was a wickid customable synner.
1575. Coverdale (title), A Christian Exhortacion unto customable Swearers.
3. Liable to custom or duty; dutiable. rare.
1529. Oath of Comptroller of Customs, in Thynne, Animadv. (1865), Notes 131. The thinges customeable which shall cum to the saide porte.
1597. Skene, Sc. Acts, Table s.v. Customers, Customable gudes may nocht be caried foorth of the Realme.
1763. Act 3 Geo. III., c. 22. Any Ship … laden with customable or prohibited Goods.
1893. Times, 17 June, 13/5. A return has been presented to the House of Commons of the duty on ‘Customable’ goods … removed, duty paid, from Great Britain to Ireland.
Hence † Customableness.
1388. Wyclif, Ecclus. xx. 28. Betere is a theef than the customablenesse of a man, a leesynmongere.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. clvii. 97. The customablenesse of sicknesses.
1730–6. Bailey (folio), Customableness, customariness, liableness to pay custom.
