Meaning of desuete | Babel Free

Definitions

Disused; out of use.

Examples

“Every act that has not been repealed or expired is given, it being apprehended that no statute can ever according to the English law, technically speaking, become desuete or obsolete.”

“Since the day of Mr. Brummell and King George, the noble art of self-adornment had fallen partially desuete.”

“According to modern methods the intermediate entry is dispensed with, also the desuete Day-book, the first entry being made in books specially designed, and the final entry in the Ledger, the design of which is continued in its primitive simplicity.”

“These opinions, founded on desuete customs are generally erroneous.”

“Scarce seemeth it true that man can believe A human mind would such horrors conceive, As there were enwrought out of red men's bones, And bodies desuete, responsive to spells By which man keeps them, until he atones For the worship of self, which in all men dwells;”

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