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May 10, 2012 This week's theme Miscellaneous words This week's words tenable casuistry discrepant consuetudinary unavailing Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg consuetudinary PRONUNCIATION: (kon-swi-TOOD-n-er-ee, -TYOOD-) MEANING: adjective: Customary. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin consuetude (custom), from consuescere (to accustom), from con- (with) + suescere (to accustom). Earliest documented use: 1590. USAGE: "Soon she'll welcome me with a bear hug, her sweet smile, and her consuetudinary greeting: My princess!" My Teacher, My Queen; The Miami Herald (Florida); May 5, 2000. Explore "consuetudinary" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

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