disuse
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French desuser.
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /dɪsˈjus/
Noun
disuse (uncountable)
Derived terms
Translations
disuse
|
Verb
Lua error in Module:en-headword at line 1118: Legacy parameter 1=STEM no longer supported, just use 'en-verb' without params
- (transitive) To cease the use of.
- 1790, Edmond Malone, The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, London: H. Baldwin, Volume I, p. 194, footnote [1]
- Whether in process of time Shakspeare grew weary of the bondage of rhyme, or whether he became convinced of its impropriety in a dramatick dialogue, his neglect of rhyming (for he never wholly disused it) seems to have been gradual.
- 1792, Cruelty the natural and inseparable Consequence of Slavery, preached March 11, 1792, at Hemel-Hempstead, Herts. By John Liddon, in The Monthly Review, May to August, Volume VIII, p. 238, [2]
- The author does not fail to recommend the practice, adopted, it is said, by many thousands in the kingdom, of disusing the West India produce.
- 1790, Edmond Malone, The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, London: H. Baldwin, Volume I, p. 194, footnote [1]
- (transitive, archaic) To disaccustom.
- He was disused to hard work.
- 1597, John Donne, "The Calm," lines 39-44, [3]
- Whether a rotten state, and hope of gaine, / Or to disuse mee from the queasie paine / Of being belov'd, and loving, or the thirst / Of honour, or faire death, out pusht mee first, / I lose my end: for here as well as I / A desperate may live, and a coward die.