Meaning of exolete | Babel Free

Definitions

1. That has gone out of use; disused, obsolete.
   not-comparable, obsolete
2. That has lost its virtue; effete, insipid.
   not-comparable, obsolete
3. (of flowers) Faded.
   not-comparable, obsolete

Examples

“A Greeke inscription which I could not understand by reason of the antiquity of those exolete letters.”

“In which [apothecaries’ shops] many…exolete, things out of date are to be had.”

“Paganism is ridiculous, Judaism exolete.”

“Plautus exolet phrases have been [exploded] from the eloquent orations of Cicero.”

“I declaimed…against the use of exolete and interpolated repetitions of old fables.”

“The vulgar Carpobalſame…being…faint, rancid, exolet.”

“How exolete Blood falls asunder.”

“These Exoticks…are now and then deprived partly of their virtues and exolete.”

“Exolete, faded, or withered, as flowers.”

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