The passage which forms our best evidence is found in Grim's Life of St Thomas, and its relative portion is as follows: Movetur quæstio de consuetudine quadam quae in Anglia tenebatur.
Plura faciunt homines e consuetudine quam e ratione=--Men do more things from custom than from reason.
Magni est ingenii revocare mentem a sensibus, et cogitationem a consuetudine abducere=--It argues a mind of great native force to be able to emancipate itself from the thraldom of the senses, and to wean its thoughts from old habits.
Nil consuetudine majus=--Nothing is more powerful than custom, or habit.
Breck, A Fragment of AElfric; translation of AEthelwold's De Consuetudine Monachorum and its relation to other MSS.
The mandate recites all the circumstances which had occurred, describing the ring as 'annulum qui pontificalis vulgariter appellatur, qui de jure et consuetudine nostre ecclesie Cantuariensis ad nos dignoscitur pertinere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "consuetudine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
