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ccountable; responsible; sensitive. [Obs.] I am very comptible even to the least sinister usage. Shak.

(Eng. Eccl. Hist.) To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to be a conformist.

(Eng. Eccl. Hist.) Compliance with the usages of the Established Church.

s of government of men, embodied in written documents, or implied in the institutions and usages of the country or society; also, a written instrument embodying such organic law, and laying down fundamental rules and principles for the conduct of affairs. Our constitution had begun to exist in times when statesmen were…

Custom, habit; usage. [R.] To observe this consuetude or law. Barnes .

General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality. There are thousands now Such women, but convention beats them down. Tennyson.

out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. "Conventional decorum." Whewell. The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. Motley. The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. Latham.

ntion or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage. All the artifice and conventionalism of life. Hawthorne. They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standart. F. W. Robertson.…

The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.

bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage.

n cloth. Corporal oath, a solemn oath; -- so called from the fact that it was the ancient usage for the party taking it to touch the corporal, or cloth that covered the consecrated elements.

Established or accepted religious rites or usages of worship; state of religious development. Cf.Cult, 2.

tition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living. And teach customs which are not lawful. Acts xvi. 21. Moved beyong his custom, Gama said. Tennyson. A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. Shak.

Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. Even now I met him With customary compliment. Shak. A formal customary attendance upon the offices. South.

, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender. Those dainty limbs which nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy. Milton. Iwould be the girdle. About her dainty, dainty waist. Tennyson.

Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work.

luxurious or voluptuous treatment. And to those dainty limbs which Nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy Milton.

Management; treatment. [Obs.] Vile demean and usage bad. Spenser.

Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect. A deserted and dilapidated buildings. Cooper.

To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom. [R.] Bp. Hall.