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Webster 1913 Edition
Disuse
Dis-use′
(?; see Dis-)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Disused
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Disusing
.] 1.
To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.
2.
To disaccustom; – with to or from;
“Disuse me from . . . pain.” as,
. disused
to toilDonne.
Dis-use′
,Noun.
Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude;
as, the limbs lose their strength by
. disuse
The
disuse
of the tongue in the only . . . remedy. Addison.
Church discipline then fell into
disuse
. Southey.
Webster 1828 Edition
Disuse
DISUSE
,Noun.
1.
Cessation of use, practice or exercise; as, the limbs lose their strength and pliability by disuse; language is altered by the disuse of words.2.
Cessation of custom; desuetude.DISUSE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To cease to use; to neglect or omit to practice.2.
To disaccustom; with from, in or to; as disused to toils; disused from pain.Definition 2024
disuse
disuse
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disuse (uncountable)
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disuse
Verb
disuse (third-person singular simple present disuses, present participle disusing, simple past and past participle disused)
- (transitive) To cease the use of.
- 1790, Edmond Malone, The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, London: H. Baldwin, Volume I, p. 194, footnote
- 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,
- 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
- (transitive, archaic) To disaccustom.
- He was disused to hard work.
- 1597, John Donne, "The Calm," lines 39-44,
- 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.