Obs. [a. OF. cost-, coustumance, f. cost-, coustumer to custom + -ANCE.]
1. Customary practice; custom, habit.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Monk’s T., 521. This Nero hadde eek a custumance In youthe agein his maister for to ryse.
1393. Gower, Conf., II. 164. Of his comun custumaunce.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 307/4. Ledde … fro the cyte of Sodome that is to wete fro the custommaunce of Synne.
1528. Paynel, Salerne’s Regim., 1. Breakynge from customable vse hurteth greuously: for customance is an other nature.
2. Customary gathering; frequenting. rare.
1513–75. Diurn. Occurrents (1833), 340. At the croce of Edinburgh quhair maist custumance of peipill war.
