Definition of disuse

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Disuse (n.) Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse..

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Disuse :: Disuse (n.) Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse..
Disacquaintance :: Disacquaintance (n.) Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance..
Use :: Use (v. i.) To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between use to, and used to..
Obsoletism :: Obsoletism (n.) A disused word or phrase; an archaism.
Desuetude :: Desuetude (n.) The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion..
Friend :: Friend (n.) One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers..
Baritone :: Baritone (n.) The viola di gamba, now entirely disused..
Lamarckism :: Lamarckism (n.) The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs..
Disused :: Disused (imp. & p. p.) of Disus.
Intermission :: Intermission (n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
Disuse :: Disuse (v. t.) To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.
Pair :: Pair (n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. A pair of beads. Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. Four pair of stairs. Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.].
Obsolete :: Obsolete (a.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances..
Thane :: Thane (n.) A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place..
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning..
Angelot :: Angelot (n.) An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused..
Sinapis :: Sinapis (n.) A disused generic name for mustard; -- now called Brassica.
Digamma :: Digamma (n.) A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse..
Court-baron :: Court-baron (n.) An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse..
Post-captain :: Post-captain (n.) A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was posted, in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse..
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