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Etymology

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From un- +‎ custom +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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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 triumphaunt reigne of Kyng Henry the .VIII.”, in The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke[1], London: Richard Grafton, page 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, Giovanni Botero, translated by Robert Johnson, Relations of the most famous kingdomes and common-wealths thorowout the world[2], London: John Haviland, page 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,[3]
      [] 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, chapter 7, in The Smuggler[4], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, page 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.

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