Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to custom
Participle: customed
Gerund: customing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | custom |
| you | custom |
| he;she;it | customs |
| we | custom |
| you | custom |
| they | custom |
Perfect
| I | have customed |
| you | have customed |
| he;she;it | has customed |
| we | have customed |
| you | have customed |
| they | have customed |
Past
| I | customed |
| you | customed |
| he;she;it | customed |
| we | customed |
| you | customed |
| they | customed |
Pluperfect
| I | had customed |
| you | had customed |
| he;she;it | had customed |
| we | had customed |
| you | had customed |
| they | had customed |
Future
| I | will custom |
| you | will custom |
| he;she;it | will custom |
| we | will custom |
| you | will custom |
| they | will custom |
Future Perfect
| I | will have customed |
| you | will have customed |
| he;she;it | will have customed |
| we | will have customed |
| you | will have customed |
| they | will have customed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | custom |
| you | custom |
| he;she;it | custom |
| we | custom |
| you | custom |
| they | custom |
Perfect
| I | have customed |
| you | have customed |
| he;she;it | have customed |
| we | have customed |
| you | have customed |
| they | have customed |
Imperfect
| I | customed |
| you | customed |
| he;she;it | customed |
| we | customed |
| you | customed |
| they | customed |
Pluperfect
| I | had customed |
| you | had customed |
| he;she;it | had customed |
| we | had customed |
| you | had customed |
| they | had customed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would custom |
| you | would custom |
| he;she;it | would custom |
| we | would custom |
| you | would custom |
| they | would custom |
Perfect
| I | would have customed |
| you | would have customed |
| he;she;it | would have customed |
| we | would have customed |
| you | would have customed |
| they | would have customed |
Imperative
| you | custom |
| we | Let's custom |
| you | custom |
Verbs conjugated like 'custom'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'custom'
accustom,
atom,
besom,
bestem,
bestorm,
bestow,
bosom,
bottom,
bust,
bustle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *ḱóm
3. PIE word
4. *swé
5. From Middle English custume, borrowed from Anglo-Norman custume, inherited from Latin consuētūdinem, a noun derived from cōnsuēscō, from con- (“with”) + suēscō (“become used or accustomed to”). Displaced native Old English ġewuna and sidu. Doublet of costume, consuetude, and kastom.
6. The adjectival form first appears c. 1830. See: Latin '
consuetudo'.
Sample Sentences
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a. 1771 (written, published posthumously) Thomas Gray, Agrippina
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Have not forgot your sire; the eye of Rome
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And the Prætorian camp have long revered,
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With customed awe the daughter, sister, wife,
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And mother of their Cæsars
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But yet a man might reply, that if a Shooemaker ſhould haue no Shooes in his Shoppe, but onely worke, as hee is beſpoken, hee ſhould bee weakley cuſtomed. [1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 52, recto:]
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Barabas, thy ships are safe,
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Riding in Malta Rhode; and all the merchants
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With other merchandize are safe arriv'd,
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And have sent me to know whether yourself
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Will come and custom them. [c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I:]
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For on a Bridge he cuſtometh to fight, / Which is but narrow, but exceeding long; / And in the ſame are many trap fals pight, / Through which the rider downe doth fall through ouerſight. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 7, page 198:]