Consuetudinous

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin cōnsuētūdinis, from Latin cōnsuetudō. By surface analysis, consuetude +‎ -in- +‎ -ous.

Adjective

Consuetudinous (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to consuetude; of an unwritten law established by usage, derived by immemorial custom from antiquity.
    • 1838, Moses Mendelssohn, “Mendelssohn's Jerusalem”, in Jerusalem; a treatise on ecclesiastical authority and Judaism, page 261:
      Sensual man, so attached to externals, etches the letter on his memory, clings fast to the consuetudinous, and cannot disengage himself from his delusive conceits.
  2. consuetudinary
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