absolete

English

Adjective

absolete (comparative more absolete, superlative most absolete)

1. Obsolete form of obsolete.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Education, custome, continuance of time, condition, mixt with other diseases, by fits, inclination, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 3, member 1, subsection 4, page 172:

     [T]he ſecond [symptom] is, falſò cogitata loqui, to talke to themſelues, or to vſe inarticulate, incondite voices, ſpeeches, abſolete geſtures, […].

   • 1839, Brakenbury Dickson Bogie, The Crisis; Or, the Great Religious Revolution and the Fall of the National Churches, Etc. Etc. According to the Revelation of St. John, page 298:

     They say that the doctrine is absolete, and that to charge them with holding it is a vile and odious imputation. The fact is, that the church possesses no power to enforce it, and therefore it is absolete.

   • 1856, John Romeyn Brodhead, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, volume 7, page 616:

     How low it is to give New Jersey as an instance, that the Patent to the Duke of York is absolete?

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