desuetude

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The state when something (for example, a custom or a law) is no longer observed nor practised; disuse, obsolescence.

   “And they being in a capacity to forget by reaſon of deſuetude, it will be a nevv pleaſure to them to recall to minde their almoſt obliterate ſpeculations.”

2. isim An instance of this.

   “Owing, I will believe, to Fred's sudden flurry in the unprovided moment,—unprovided, by reason of prior desuetudes and discouragements to speech, on Papa's side.”

3. isim Chiefly followed by from or of: a cessation of practising or using something.

   “[T]he beſt Chriſtians, and (vvitneſs David) the greateſt Proficients in Scripture-Knovvledge, have the keeneſt Stomacks to this Food of Souls; and the vigorouſeſt Piety, by a Deſuetude and Neglect of it, is ſubject to Faint and Pine avvay.”