ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice; prevalence, observance;
conventionalism, conventionality; mode, fashion, vogue; etiquette &c (gentility) 852;
order of the day, cry; conformity &c 82; consuetude, dustoor † .
one's old way, old school, veteris vestigia flammae [Lat.]; laudator temporis acti
[Lat.].
rule, standing order, precedent, routine; red-tape, red-tapism † ; pipe clay; rut, groove.
cacoethes [Lat.]; bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit, intrinsic habit &c;
addiction, trick.
training &c (education) 537; seasoning, second nature, acclimatization; knack &c
V. be wont &c adj.. fall into a rut, fall into a custom &c (conform to) 82; tread the beaten
track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten; stare super
antiquas vias [Lat.]; move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go
on in the old jog trot way.
habituate, inure, harden, season, caseharden; accustom, familiarize; naturalize,
acclimatize; keep one's hand in; train &c (educate) 537.
get into the way, get into the knack of; learn &c 539; cling to, adhere to; repeat &c
104; acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall
into a trick; addict oneself to, take to, get into.
be habitual &c adj.; prevail; come into use, become a habit, take root; gain upon one,
grow upon one.
Adj. habitual; accustomary † ; prescriptive, accustomed &c v.; of daily occurrence, of
everyday occurrence; consuetudinary † ; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common,
frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known;
familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established,
stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized,
accredited; of course, admitted, understood.
conformable.
&c 82; according to use, according to custom, according to routine; in vogue, in
fashion, in, with it; fashionable &c (genteel) 852.
wont; used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated &c v.; in the habit of;
habitue; at home in &c (skillful) 698; seasoned; imbued with; devoted to, wedded to.
hackneyed, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted, ingrafted † , permanent, inveterate, besetting;
naturalized; ingrained &c (intrinsic) 5.
Adv. habitually &c adj.; always &c (uniformly) 16.
as usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the sparks fly upwards;
more suo, more solito [Lat.]; ex more.
as a rule, for the most part; usually, generally, typically &c adj.; most often, most
frequently.
Phr. cela s'entend [Fr.]; abeunt studia in mores [Lat.]; adeo in teneris consuescere
multum est [Lat.]; consuetudo quasi altera natura [Lat.] [Cicero]; hoc erat in more
majorum [Lat.]; How use doth breed a habit in a man! [Two Gentlemen]; magna est vis
consuetudinis [Lat.]; morent fecerat usus [Lat.] [Ovid].
614. Desuetude -- N. desuetude, disusage † ; obsolescence, disuse &c 678; want of habit,
want of practice; inusitation † ; newness to; new brooms.