- accept custom - Accepted rule or usage - Get together - The act of coming together; the state of being
together; union; coalition. - General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom;
usage; conventionality. - A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of
delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, --
civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical. - An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or
estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly
which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the
throne to be abdicated by James II.
- Accepted rule or usage - A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist,
something; contest; strife. - Strife in words; controversy; altercation; quarrel;
dispute; as, a bone of contention. - Vehemence of endeavor; eagerness; ardor; zeal. - A point maintained in an argument, or a line of
argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion or
strife; a position taken or contended for.
- authoritative laws - Decree - Local law - Official decree - Regulation - Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision. - A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of
action; a statute, law, regulation, rescript, or accepted usage; an
edict or decree; esp., a local law enacted by a municipal government;
as, a municipal ordinance.