absolete

comparative more absolete · superlative most absolete

1. obsoleteObsolete form of obsolete.

   How low it is to give New Jersey as an instance, that the Patent to the Duke of York is absolete?

   1856, John Romeyn Brodhead, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, volume 7, page 616

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   [T]he ſecond [symptom] is, falſò cogitata loqui, to talke to themſelues, or to vſe inarticulate, incondite voices, ſpeeches, abſolete geſtures,[…].

   1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Education, custome, continuance of time, condition, mixt with other diseases, by fits, inclination, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 3, member 1, subsection 4, page 172

   They say that the doctrine is absolete, and that to charge them with holding it is a vile and odious imputation. The fact is, that the church possesses no power to enforce it, and therefore it is absolete.

   1839, Brakenbury Dickson Bogie, The Crisis; Or, the Great Religious Revolution and the Fall of the National Churches, Etc. Etc. According to the Revelation of St. John, page 298