ppl. a. Obs. or arch. [f. CUSTOM + -ED.]
1. Accustomed, usual, customary; established by custom.
1382. Wyclif, Ex. v. 18. Ȝe shulen ȝelde the customyd noumbre of tilys.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 428/2. On esterday aboue his customed pytaunce he ete two egges.
1595. Shaks., John, III. iv. 155. No common winde, no customed euent, But they will … call them Meteors, prodigies, and signes.
1649. Blithe, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653), 95. Let not passion nor old customed corrupted Will prevail.
1750. Gray, Elegy, xxviii. One morn I miss’d him on the custom’d hill.
1872. G. Macdonald, Wilf. Cumb., I. xiii. 207. The invitation to dance, a customed observance at Moldwarp Hall.
2. Of merchandise: Charged with duty, or on which duty has been paid.
1604. E. Grimstone, trans. Acosta’s Hist. Indies, 225. Silver that was marked and customed.
1611. Cotgr., Gabellé … Customed for; on which an Impost is layed.
1621. Bolton, Stat. Irel., 44 (12 Edw. IV.). He or they so … carrying hydes, or any other staple merchandises into Scotland, not customed, shall forfeit [etc.].
3. Frequented or patronized by customers.
1594. Plat, Jewell-ho., III. 66. A house well customed.
1611. Rich, Honest. Age (1844), 39. An ill customed shoppe.
1703. Ld. Orrery, As you find it, II. ii. I have more invitations … than the best-custom’d Lawyer has Clients.
