consuetude

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an established custom or usage, especially with legal force

   By ancient consuetude, the villagers grazed sheep on the common.

From Latin consuetudo ('custom, habit, usage'), from consuescere ('to accustom'), from con- (intensive) + suescere ('to become accustomed'), related to suus ('one's own').

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