disusage

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ usage.

Noun

disusage (uncountable)

1. Gradual cessation of custom or use; disuse.
   • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     leaving the rest to be abolished by disusage through tract of time

Further reading

• “disusage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.