单词 | disused |
释义 | disusedadj.ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > [adjective] > not used or accustomed > disaccustomed disused1530 disaccustomeda1586 weaned1670 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 523/1 I can nat shote nowe but with great payne, I am so disused. 1656 R. Baxter Reformed Pastor v. 85 Many disused persons can mutter out some honest requests in secret. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vii. 214 Being now in a rainy climate, which we had been long disused to. a1763 W. Shenstone Progress of Taste i. in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 264 Disus'd to speak, he tries his skill; Speaks coldly, and succeeds but ill. 2. No longer used; fallen out of use; obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > [adjective] > fallen out of use or obsolete oldOE outworna1522 stale1550 obsolete1579 overgone1581 overworn1603 disused1611 exolete1611 absoletea1613 worn-out1612 outdated1616 lapsed1667 exploded1709 supersededa1831 rinky-dink1913 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Disusité, disused, grown out of vse. 1630 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 261 Some dis-used statute. 1674 R. Boyle Excellency Theol. ii. v. 222 Our ignorance..of the dis~used languages wherein they are delivered. 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic vii. 220 A different and now disused meaning. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1530 |
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