Uncustomed

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Of merchandise: On which no custom or duty has been paid. † Also, not charged with or liable to duty.

1393.  Rec. Elgin (New Spald. Cl. 1903), I. 19. Al ye wol, ye clathe and al vthir thyngis y^t gais be schipe owte of wre hafine of Spee vncustomyt.

1427.  Rolls of Parlt., IV. 318/1. To passe oute of this Royaume be way of Marchandise, uncustumed.

1487.  Naval Acc. Hen. VII. (1896), 32. vij hausers forfetted … in bringyng the same on land uncustumed.

a. 1548.  Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII., 65. A great numbre of rascal & pedlers … brought ouer hattes and cappes, and diuerse merchaundise vncustomed.

1594.  J. Dickenson, Arisbas (1878), 48. Hee had aboord certayne vnlawfull and vncustomed wares.

1631.  Heywood, Fair Maid of West, V. An Englishman Hath forfeited his ship for goods uncustom’d.

1669.  Sturmy, Mariner’s Mag., Penalties & Forfeit., 7. Liberty to go on board and take out Prohibited and Uncustomed Goods.

1718–9.  Act 5 Geo. I., c. 11 (title), An Act against clandestine running of uncustomed Goods.

1733.  Gentl. Mag., May, 266/2. The Watchmen … seized 1100 Weight of uncustom’d Tea.

c. 1820.  Hogg, Tales & Sk. (1836), I. 304. Uncustomed wine and spirits.

1887.  Times, 10 Sept., 4/4. Dealing with uncustomed goods—i.e., tobacco—with intent to defraud Her Majesty’s Customs.

  2.  Unaccustomed to something. Obs. or arch.

c. 1520.  Barclay, Jugurth (1557), 41 b. Other vncustomed to suche busynesse of batayle … fered the losse of their libertie.

1607.  C. Lever, A Crucifix, cxv. To adulation they vncustomd are.

1791.  Cowper, Odyss., VIII. 553. Glad he beheld The steaming vase, uncustom’d to its use E’er since his voyage from the isle of fair Calypso.

1877.  Blackie, Wise Men, 179. They show like moles uncustomed to the light.

  3.  Not customary; unusual. Obs. or arch.

1552.  Huloet, Vncustomed or out of vse, disuetus.

1565.  Stapleton, trans. Bede’s Hist. Ch. Eng., 79. An Abbat … to whom … the bishops them selues ought after a straunge and vncustomed order to be subiect.

1581.  Marbeck, Bk. of Notes, 730. A Miracle is a worke, hard and vncustomed by the power of God.

1603.  Florio, Montaigne, I. xxv. 85. My father purposed to make mee learne it [sc. Greek] by arte; But by new and vncustomed meanes.

1872.  Blackie, Lays Highl., 35. I feel the keen, uncustomed temper of the thin, clear air.