Dictionary entry

Usual

Webster's Dictionary 1913

U″su‐al (?), a. [L. usualis, from usus use: cf. F. usuel. See Use, n.] Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common.

Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times. Hooker.

We can make friends of these usual enemies. Baxter.

— U″su‐al‐ly, adv. — U″su‐al‐ness, n.