disused
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˌdɪsˈjuːzd/
adj
- No longer in use.
“But as time & experience do reforme euery thing that is amisse, so this bitter poeme called the old Comedy, being disused and taken away, the new Comedy came in place, more ciuill and pleasant a great deale and not touching any man by name, but in a certain generalitie glancing at euery abuse,”
“In Scotland the custom, now disused in England, of inviting the relations of the deceased to the interment is universally retained.”
verb
- simple past and past participle of disuse