discurrent

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adjective

Not current or free to circulate; not in use.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivediscurrent (comparative more discurrent, superlative most discurrent)

comparative more discurrent · superlative most discurrent

  1. obsoleteNot current or free to circulate; not in use.
    1 more example

    Which made me entertein this suspicious conjecture, that it might be their care that no part of the Protestant positions and allegations should be knowne they were so exact, as to make discurrent in some sort even those very books which were constreined to recite them, that they might refute them, in such wise as not to suffer them to be commonly salable, but only to such or in such places as the superiours should thinke meet.

    1605, Sir Edwin Sandys, Europae Speculum [A Relation of the State of Religion in Europe], in Mary Ellen Henley, Sir Edwin Sandy's Europae Speculum: a Critical Edition (2001)

Origin

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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