customable, a.
(ˈkʌstəməb(ə)l)
Also 4–6 custum(m)able, 5 -abil, -eable, customabylle, -mable, custymabil, 6 costomable.
[a. OF. cust-, cost-, coustumable, f. custume, coustumer, custom n. and v.: see -able.]
† 1. Of things or actions: According to custom; customary, usual. Obs.
| 1388 Wyclif Numb. xxix. 6 With customable [1382 woned] fletynge offryngis. 1460 J. Capgrave Chron. 34 Whanne Nylus, the grete ryver, had..descendid into his customable mesure. 1532 More Confut. Tindale Wks. 389/1 After hys custumable fashion. 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. xlix. 5 It was a customable matter in those dayes to sing Psalmes to the harp. 1663 Aron-bimn. 65 It is so natural, so customable to us, we have no sense or feeling of it. |
† b. Depending upon established custom; = customary 4. Obs.
| 1580 Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 438 The regiment that they haue dependeth vppon statute lawe..Then vpon common law..Then vpon customable law. |
† c. as adv. = customably. Obs.
| 1303 R. Brunne Handl. Synne 3768 Þys synne [of cursing] ys nat dampnable But hyt be seyde custummable. 1567 R. Mulcaster Fortescue's De Laud. Leg. (1672) 121 b, In the common bench there are customable v. Justices, or six at the most. 1661 Morgan Sph. Gentry iv. iii. 47 The one sort customable wearing their hood on the left shoulder. |
† 2. Of persons: a. Accustomed (to), wont (to do a thing); b. (with agent-noun) Habitual. Obs.
| 1303 R. Brunne Handl. Synne 2014 Ȝyf thou be custumable þar to, þou synnest gretly. 1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy iv. xxxii, He was aye customable..for to be vengeable. c 1449 Pecock Repr. (Rolls) II. iii. xix. 414 King Saul was a wickid customable synner. 1575 Coverdale (title), A Christian Exhortacion unto customable Swearers. |
3. Liable to custom or duty; dutiable. rare.
| 1529 Oath of Comptroller of Customs in Thynne Animadv. (1865) Notes 131 The thinges customeable which shall cum to the saide porte. 1597 Skene Sc. Acts Table s.v. Customers, Customable gudes may nocht be caried foorth of the Realme. 1763 Act 3 Geo. III, c. 22 Any Ship..laden with customable or prohibited Goods. 1893 Times 17 June 13/5 A return has been presented to the House of Commons of the duty on ‘Customable’ goods..removed, duty paid, from Great Britain to Ireland. |
Hence † ˈcustomableness.
| 1388 Wyclif Ecclus. xx. 28 Betere is a theef than the customablenesse of a man, a leesynmongere. 1583 Golding Calvin on Deut. clvii. 971 The customablenesse of sicknesses. 1730–6 Bailey (folio), Customableness, customariness, liableness to pay custom. |