uncustomed

uncustomed

English

Etymology

un- +‎ custom +‎ -ed

Adjective

uncustomed (not comparable)

1. Not subject to customs duties; uncustomable. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
2. (archaic) On which no customs duties have been paid.
   • 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, “The triumphaunt reigne of Kyng Henry the .VIII.,” p. lxv,

     […] with them came a great numbre of rascal & pedlers, & Iuellers, and brought ouer hattes and cappes, and diuerse merchaundise vncustomed, all vnder the coloure of the trussery of the Ambassadours.

   • 1630, Robert Johnson (translator), Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world by Giovanni Botero, London: John Haviland, p. 102,

     In the Duchie of Millan, the Governour is very politike and severe, in searching after bookes and uncustomed wares, though it tend but to a paire of stockings […]

   • 1760, Tobias Smollett, Continuation of the Complete History of England, London: Richard Baldwin, Volume 3, p. 331,

     […] a bill was prepared […] importing a continuation of several laws, namely, the several clauses mentioned of the acts in the fifth and eighth of king George I. against the clandestine running of uncustomed goods […]

   • 1845, George Payne Rainsford James, The Smuggler, London: Smith, Elder, Volume I, Chapter 7, p. 159,

     Every uncustomed spirit, every prohibited ware, physical and intellectual, there finds its mart; and the chief art that is practised is to cheat as cleverly as may be—the chief science learned, is how to defraud without being detected.

Anagrams

• uncostumed