exolete

alternative exolet

1. not comparableobsoleteThat has gone out of use; disused, obsolete.

   Paganism is ridiculous, Judaism exolete.

   1651, George Digby, chapter IV, in Letters between Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelm Digby, Knt. concerning Religion, page 125

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   A Greeke inscription which I could not understand by reason of the antiquity of those exolete letters.

   1611, Thomas Coryat, Coryat’s Crudities, page 178

   In which [apothecaries’ shops] many…exolete, things out of date are to be had.

   1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, part II, section iv, member i, subsection 5

   Plautus exolet phrases have been [exploded] from the eloquent orations of Cicero.

   1652, Thomas Urquhart, Ἐκσκυβαλαυρον; or, The Jewel in his Works (1834), page 211

   I declaimed…against the use of exolete and interpolated repetitions of old fables.

   1705, Abraham Cowley, translated by Nahum Tate, Cowley’s History of Plants: A Poem in Six Books, published 1795, Preface, page 20

2. not comparableobsoleteThat has lost its virtue; effete, insipid.

   How exolete Blood falls asunder.

   1676, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, XI, page 708

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   The vulgar Carpobalſame…being…faint, rancid, exolet.

   1657, Richard Tomlinson (translator), Jean de Renou (author), A Medicinal Diſpenſatory, page 283

   These Exoticks…are now and then deprived partly of their virtues and exolete.

   1684, an unknown translator of Théophile Bonet (author), Mercurius Compitalitius, chapter x, page 358

3. not comparableobsolete(of flowers) Faded.

   Exolete, faded, or withered, as flowers.

   1730–6, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (folio edition), “Exolete”