Word Meanings - OVERLEAP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore. "Let me o'erleap that custom." Shak.

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• ACROSS
  1. From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across. Shak. 2. Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ. Bp. Hall.
• CUSTOMARY
  Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate. (more info) 1. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. Even now I met him With customary compliment.
• CUSTOMABLE
  1. Customary. Sir T. More. 2. Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.
• CUSTOMHOUSE
  The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels.
• CUSTOM
  Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• IGNORE
  To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus. 3. Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly;
• CUSTOMER
  1. One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. Hakluyt. 2. One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.
• CUSTOMARINESS
  Quality of being customary.
• CUSTOMABLENESS
  Quality of being customable; conformity to custom.
• CUSTOMARILY
  In a customary manner; habitually.
• HENCEFORWARD
  From this time forward; henceforth.
• HENCEFORTH
  From this time forward; henceforward. I never from thy side henceforth to stray. Milton.
• CUSTOMABLY
  Usually. Milton.
• LACROSSE
  A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• DISACCUSTOM
  To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.
• ACCUSTOMABLE
  Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer.
• THENCE
  see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark
• ARCHENCEPHALA
  The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.
• THENCEFORTH
  From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.
• ACCUSTOM
  To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; - - with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer. Syn. -- To habituate;
• WHENCEEVER
  Whencesoever.
• ACCUSTOMABLY
  According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. Latimer.
• UNCUSTOMABLE
  Not customable, or subject to custom duties.