Usance: alternatives and connections

Attachment to the United States.

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An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English.

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Custom, habit; usage.

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A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.

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An idiom of the German language.

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The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a relig…

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The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of religion or other solemn duty; a solemn ob…

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Of or pertaining to rites or ritual; as, ritual service or sacrifices; the ritual law.

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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

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A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

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Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of risi…

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A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.

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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.

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Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.

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The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.

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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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