Sentence examples for early custom from inspiring English sources

The Greeks were no less superstitious than any other ancient people and saw omens in the flight of birds, in dreams, or in the frenzied utterances of an oracle, but they had no early custom of celestial divination.

Early custom proximal femoral implants typically had stems that were shorter and thinner than recent implants.

One of the common modes of failure in early custom endoprostheses was failure of the stem component.

The best-known example of the early customs unions is the German Zollverein (literally, "customs union").

Early customs connected with cornerstones were related to study of the stars and their religious significance.

Bacău was an early customs post, where trade routes came together at a ford over the Bistrița.

However, since the later Romans wished to have explanations for their early customs and institutions, historians ascribed various innovations to these kings, often in stereotypical and erroneous ways.

The Romans observed the curious rite of the os resectum: after cremation a severed finger joint was buried, probably as a symbol of an earlier custom of inhumation.

Google says it will still offer My Maps, its earlier custom mapping tool, for the time being and My Maps users can import their maps into the new Maps Engine Lite.

The Scottish evolutionist John Fergusson McLennan used the term to denote symbolic forms of earlier customs.

The rule under earlier customs seemed to have been females succeeded females.