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单词 consuetude
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Definition of consuetude in English:

consuetude

noun ˈkɒnswɪtjuːdˈkɑnswəˌt(j)ud
Scottish
  • A custom, especially one having legal force.

    〈主苏格兰〉(尤指具有法律效力的)习俗;惯例

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The society macroclimate of seeking the liberation was cleaning up the outmoded consuetudes on the style of the costume, which tended to be succinct, and people strived to be simple and elegant on the hue and paid attention to embody female's natural beauty.
    • Already the new men in the house were about as numerous as the war veterans and one could almost see and feel that there was going to be a question - the question of just how to teach so many new men the ‘old consuetudes.’
    • Most traditions and consuetudes, outliving centuries, and is with today care kept Ukrainians in the folk creation, folk-lore, wares of folk skilled craftsmen.
    • Obviously, consuetude and orality still retained their primary role: a huge number of institutional, personal, and juridical relationships were never sanctioned in written form.
    • This, together with new desires for fine art critical of anaemic and attenuated art consuetudes, as well as the arrival of several generations of artists who grew up, cherish and wish to merge vernacular and fine art approaches, has led to a new variety of art, which Hill now seeks to name.
    • The Moderns were frequently critical of Progress, not because they favoured old verities and consuetudes, but because Progress attempted to pass itself off as Nature, or as History itself.
    • They were pooped, but consuetude dictated that they remain upright for another 30 minutes.
    • We would like to repeat the ancient invitation of giving an affectionate welcome so it becomes, for many, a pleasant consuetude.
    • In it the king sets forth that he has made a burgh (burgum fecisse) at his new castle upon Are, and has granted to the burgh and its burgesses all the liberties and free consuetudes which his other burghs and burgesses through his kingdom enjoy.
    • With the re-emergement of the feminist movement in the 1960s, these patriarchal consuetudes have been brought to the attention of legal systems throughout the world, and attempts to rectify them in the name of equality have been done through various means, and to disparate levels of success.
    • We conclude by discussing the implications of consuetude for political and social behavior.
    • Any consuetude of brown bag lunches was intended to be flushed.
    Synonyms
    tradition, practice, usage, observance, way, convention, procedure, ceremony, ritual, ordinance, form, formality, fashion, mode, manner

Derivatives

  • consuetudinary

  • adjective kɒnswɪˈtjuːdɪn(ə)riˌkɑnswəˈt(j)ud(ə)nɛri
    Scottish
    • But modernity is fuelled by secularization: in our times, political authority must be not merely the enforcer of natural or consuetudinary law, but rather the producer of law.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In 1452, Bizkaians assembled beneath their sacred Oak of Gernika and approved the Fuero Viejo de Bizkaia, the Old Law of Bizkaia: a redaction of the consuetudinary laws and customs that had informed their legal practices for centuries.
      • The consuetudinary law and traditional memory of the Lombards, which had been preserved for centuries through the means typical of oral cultures, needed a new and stronger foundation: they became texts written in Latin.
      • A driving force in this resistance, as he presented it, was class conflict: the desire of people of comparatively low socio-economic status to undermine or even usurp the consuetudinary power not only of clergymen, but of lawyers and doctors as well.
      • It suggests the integration of two distinct normative scopes of the society, the legal right and consuetudinary law, with the objective to argue that the legal instruments of the Brazilian society can be used to protect the cultural and natural patrimony.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin consuetudo (see custom).

Definition of consuetude in US English:

consuetude

nounˈkänswəˌt(y)o͞odˈkɑnswəˌt(j)ud
Scottish
  • An established custom, especially one having legal force.

    〈主苏格兰〉(尤指具有法律效力的)习俗;惯例

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The society macroclimate of seeking the liberation was cleaning up the outmoded consuetudes on the style of the costume, which tended to be succinct, and people strived to be simple and elegant on the hue and paid attention to embody female's natural beauty.
    • This, together with new desires for fine art critical of anaemic and attenuated art consuetudes, as well as the arrival of several generations of artists who grew up, cherish and wish to merge vernacular and fine art approaches, has led to a new variety of art, which Hill now seeks to name.
    • Most traditions and consuetudes, outliving centuries, and is with today care kept Ukrainians in the folk creation, folk-lore, wares of folk skilled craftsmen.
    • The Moderns were frequently critical of Progress, not because they favoured old verities and consuetudes, but because Progress attempted to pass itself off as Nature, or as History itself.
    • We conclude by discussing the implications of consuetude for political and social behavior.
    • Obviously, consuetude and orality still retained their primary role: a huge number of institutional, personal, and juridical relationships were never sanctioned in written form.
    • With the re-emergement of the feminist movement in the 1960s, these patriarchal consuetudes have been brought to the attention of legal systems throughout the world, and attempts to rectify them in the name of equality have been done through various means, and to disparate levels of success.
    • We would like to repeat the ancient invitation of giving an affectionate welcome so it becomes, for many, a pleasant consuetude.
    • In it the king sets forth that he has made a burgh (burgum fecisse) at his new castle upon Are, and has granted to the burgh and its burgesses all the liberties and free consuetudes which his other burghs and burgesses through his kingdom enjoy.
    • Any consuetude of brown bag lunches was intended to be flushed.
    • They were pooped, but consuetude dictated that they remain upright for another 30 minutes.
    • Already the new men in the house were about as numerous as the war veterans and one could almost see and feel that there was going to be a question - the question of just how to teach so many new men the ‘old consuetudes.’
    Synonyms
    tradition, practice, usage, observance, way, convention, procedure, ceremony, ritual, ordinance, form, formality, fashion, mode, manner

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin consuetudo (see custom).

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