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OBSOLETE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
No longer in use
Example:
obsolete words
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
noncurrent (not current or belonging to the present time)
Derivation:
obsoleteness (the property of being out of date and not current)
Context examples:
It trained his ear and gave him a fine appreciation for noble English; withal it introduced into his mind much that was archaic and obsolete.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Old Buckhorse was skipping about on a box beside me, shrieking out criticisms and advice in strange, obsolete ring-jargon, which no one could understand.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was, and is when I write, at the end of that low-lying street, a dilapidated little wooden building, probably an obsolete old ferry-house.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
On the one shelf at the library he found Karl Marx, Ricardo, Adam Smith, and Mill, and the abstruse formulas of the one gave no clew that the ideas of another were obsolete.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
If I had not guessed this, on the way to the coffee-house, I could hardly have failed to know what was the matter when I followed him into an upstairs room, and found Miss Murdstone there, supported by a background of sideboard, on which were several inverted tumblers sustaining lemons, and two of those extraordinary boxes, all corners and flutings, for sticking knives and forks in, which, happily for mankind, are now obsolete.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It's a little out-of-the-way place, where they administer what is called ecclesiastical law, and play all kinds of tricks with obsolete old monsters of acts of Parliament, which three-fourths of the world know nothing about, and the other fourth supposes to have been dug up, in a fossil state, in the days of the Edwards.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
