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Inusitation :: Inusitation (n.) Want of use; disuse.

Obsoletism :: Obsoletism (n.) A disused word or phrase; an archaism.

Baritone :: Baritone (n.) The viola di gamba, now entirely disused..

Disused :: Disused (imp. & p. p.) of Disus.

Astrolabe :: Astrolabe (n.) An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused.

Friend :: Friend (n.) One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers..

Disuse :: Disuse (v. t.) To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil..

Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o

Rusty :: Rusty (superl.) Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect..

Post-captain :: Post-captain (n.) A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was posted, in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse..

Digamma :: Digamma (n.) A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse..

Disuse :: Disuse (v. t.) To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.

Use :: Use (v. i.) To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between use to, and used to..

Obsolete :: Obsolete (a.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances..

Sinapis :: Sinapis (n.) A disused generic name for mustard; -- now called Brassica.

Intermission :: Intermission (n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.

Triangle :: Triangle (n.) A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, -- now disused..

Disacquaintance :: Disacquaintance (n.) Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance..

Thane :: Thane (n.) A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place..

Revive :: Revive (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning..

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