Semiotics has developed a more precise methodology for this interpretive process, seeking to expose the unstated habitual practices for interpreting signifiers.
Was it, in truth, within the bounds of human possibility, that what I now saw was the result, merely, of the habitual practice of this sarcastic imitation?
It is neither the habitual practice of sensuality, a low, unworthy way, nor the habitual 1.
Debierue's "hiding" of the key was evidently a habitual practice, a safeguard to prevent its loss as he walked to and from the theater each night.
It was a habitual practice of his, and it annoyed him.
Vice is a habitual, repeated practice of wrongdoing.
Traditional Maya religion, though also representing a belief system, is often referred to as costumbre, the 'custom' or habitual religious practice, in contradistinction to orthodox Roman Catholic ritual.
The Sunna, meaning "habitual practice" or "trodden path" is the other primary source of law.
Still, homosexual acts are not against the law in Egypt; most men caught in these roundups are charged with fujur, or the "habitual practice of debauchery."
Nevertheless, this habitual practice is something that board members and those in the theater community find troubling.