customable

[ kuhs-tuh-muh-buhl ]

adjective

1. subject to customs or duties; dutiable.

customable

/ ˈkʌstəməbəl /

adjective

1. subject to customs

Other Words From

• custom·a·ble·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of customable¹

First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English word from Anglo-French word c(o)ustumable. See custom, -able

Example Sentences

This holy bishop did open his discourse right merrily, for in a pleasant manner he thus begins his letter: 'And, sir, if it be your pleasure, as it is, that I shall play the fool in my customable manner when Forest shall suffer, I would wish my stage stood near unto Forest; for I would endeavor myself so to content the people that therewith I might also convert Forest, God so helping.'

From Project Gutenberg

In all this kingdome—yea, and in the Ilands Philippinas—it is a customable vse, that the husband doth giue dowrie vnto the wife with whom he doth marrie; and at such time as they doe ioyne in matrimonie, the father of the bride doth make a great feast in his owne house, and doth inuite to the same the father and mother, kinsfolkes and friends, of his sonne in lawe.

From Project Gutenberg

Any ship not more than 50 tons hovering on the coast with customable or prohibited goods may be boarded by a customs officer, who may demand bond for treble the value of the goods.

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"A Christian exhortation unto customable swearers," 1575.

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In the Statute of the 34 and 35 of Henry VIII. a pin and web in the eye is recited among the “customable diseases,” which honest persons, not being surgeons, might treat with herbs, roots, and waters, with the knowledge of whose nature God had endowed them.

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