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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Rusty :: Rusty (superl.) Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect..
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..
Digamma :: Digamma (n.) A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse..
Obsoletism :: Obsoletism (n.) A disused word or phrase; an archaism.
Intermission :: Intermission (n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
Desuete :: Desuete (a.) Disused; out of use.
Disacquaintance :: Disacquaintance (n.) Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance..
Disuse :: Disuse (v. t.) To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.
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..
Angelot :: Angelot (n.) An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused..
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning..
Imprescriptible :: Imprescriptible (a.) Not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription..
Disuse :: Disuse (v. t.) To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil..
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.].
Sinapis :: Sinapis (n.) A disused generic name for mustard; -- now called Brassica.
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..
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..
Disusage :: Disusage (n.) Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse.
Triangle :: Triangle (n.) A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, -- now disused..
Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o
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