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† ˈexolete, a. Obs.
[ad. L. exolēt-us, pa. pple. of exolēscĕre to grow up, grow out of use, f. ex- (see ex- prefix1) + ol- to grow; cf. adolēscĕre.]
a. That has gone out of use; disused, obsolete.
b. That has lost its virtue; effete, insipid.
c. Of flowers: Faded.
a.1611Coryat Crudities 178 A Greeke inscription which I could not understand by reason of the antiquity of those exolete letters. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iv. i. v, In which [apothecaries' shops] many..exolete, things out of date are to be had. 1651Ld. Digby, etc. Lett. conc. Relig. iv. 125 Paganism is ridiculous, Judaism exolete. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 211 Plautus exolet phrases have been [exploded] from the eloquent orations of Cicero. 1705tr. Cowley's Hist. Plants Pref. (1795) 20, I declaimed..against the use of exolete and interpolated repetitions of old fables.
b.1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 283 The vulgar carpo⁓balsame being..faint, rancid, exolet. 1676Phil. Trans. XI. 708 How exolete Blood falls asunder. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. x. 358 These Exoticks..are now and then deprived partly of their virtues and exolete.
c.1730–6Bailey (folio), Exolete, faded, or withered, as flowers. |