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Webster 1913 Edition
Exolete
Ex′o-lete
,Adj.
[L.
exoletus
, p. p. of exolescere
to grow out, grow out of use; ex
out + olescere
to grow.] Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid.
[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Exolete
EXOLE'TE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
exolete
exolete
English
Alternative forms
- exolet (exolete, [17th C.])
Adjective
exolete (not comparable)
- (obsolete)
- That has gone out of use; disused, obsolete.
- 1611, Thomas Coryat, Coryat’s Crudities, page 178:
- A Greeke inscription which I could not understand by reason of the antiquity of those exolete letters.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, part II, section iv, member i, subsection 5:
- In which [apothecaries’ shops] many…exolete, things out of date are to be had.
- 1651, George Digby, Letters between Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelm Digby, Knt. concerning Religion, chapter iv, page 125:
- Paganism is ridiculous, Judaism exolete.
- 1652, Thomas Urquhart, Ἐκσκυβαλαυρον; or, The Jewel in his Works (1834), page 211:
- Plautus exolet phrases have been [exploded] from the eloquent orations of Cicero.
- 1705, Nahum Tate (translator), Abraham Cowley (author), Cowley’s History of Plants: A Poem in Six Books (1795), Preface, page 20:
- I declaimed…against the use of exolete and interpolated repetitions of old fables.
- 1611, Thomas Coryat, Coryat’s Crudities, page 178:
- That has lost its virtue; effete, insipid.
- 1657, Richard Tomlinson (translator), Jean de Renou (author), A Medicinal Diſpenſatory, page 283:
- The vulgar Carpobalſame…being…faint, rancid, exolet.
- 1676, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society XI, page 708:
- How exolete Blood falls asunder.
- 1684, an unknown translator of Théophile Bonet (author), Mercurius Compitalitius, chapter x, page 358:
- These Exoticks…are now and then deprived partly of their virtues and exolete.
- 1657, Richard Tomlinson (translator), Jean de Renou (author), A Medicinal Diſpenſatory, page 283:
- (of flowers) Faded.
- 1730–6, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (folio edition), “Exolete”:
- Exolete, faded, or withered, as flowers.
- 1730–6, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (folio edition), “Exolete”:
References
- “†E·xolete, a.” listed on page 416/1 of § 2 (E, ed. Henry Bradley) of volume III (D and E, 1897) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)