a. and sb. [ad. L. consuētūdināri-us customary, f. consuētūdin-em (see above). Cf. F. droit consuetudinaire (14th c.).]
A. adj. According to consuetude, custom, use and wont, or usage; customary.
1590. Serpent of Devis., B ij a. First he saith it was necessary … Secondly, he saith it was consuetudinary: and lastly he saith it was voluntary,.
1687. S. Hill, Cath. Balance, 28. Consuetudinary Apostolical Traditions.
1827. Scott, Napoleon, xxxviii. Laws, whether written or consuetudinary.
1861. W. Bell, Dict. Law Scot., s.v., Consuetudinary or customary law, in contradistinction to written or statutory law, is that law which is derived by immemorial custom from remote antiquity. Such is the common law of Scotland.
1881. W. Robertson Smith, Old Test. in Jewish Ch., x. 299. Ordinary affairs of life are always regulated by consuetudinary law.
B. sb. A treatise containing a collection of customs or usages, local or particular to some body; esp. a book containing the ritual and ceremonial usages of a monastic house or order, a cathedral, collegiate church, or the like. Sometimes identified with an ORDINARY.
1494. Fabyan, Chron., VII. ccxxii. 245. The Ordynare or Consuetudynary … nowe named Salysbury vse.
1546. Bale, Eng. Votaries, II. (1550), 40. An ordynary of Popysh ceremonyes, the whyche he entytled a Consuetudynary or vsuall boke of the churche.
1846. Maskell, Mon. Rit., I. p. xliv., note. The MS. Ordinale, through the kindness of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter is now lying before me … the Consuetudinary of the Church of Exeter forms the first part of the book.
1877. J. D. Chambers, Div. Worship, 195. Not mentioned in the Consuetudinaries, except that of Wells.
