† disusagen.
Obsolete.
Discontinuance of a usage or practice; = disuse n. 1.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun]
lissc1000
ceasec1330
stintc1330
stinting1338
ceasinga1340
discontinuancea1398
cessationa1400
leaving-off?a1425
surceasingc1435
disusage1475
stop1483
staying1546
discontinuation1572
discontinuing1582
surcease1590
stintance1605
cessure1607
desisting1607
avocationa1617
desistance1632
sistencea1639
surceasementa1641
supersession1648
dispractice1673
breaking-off1683
estoppage1701
cess1703
cesser1809
shutdown1857
stoppage1865
shut-off1889
sign-off1919
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > [noun]
disusage1475
disaccustomance1502
discustom1603
unaccustomedness1611
disaccustomedness1632
dissuetudea1639
desuetude1650
disusance1685
disuse1699
insuetude1828
unfashion1876
1475 Bk. Noblesse 26 That good courages of hertis be not mynissed..for disusage and levying armes for a litille season.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. xiv. 206 To bee abolished by disusage through tract of time.
1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist ii. viii. 102 Nor [can] an angrie Iudge condemne vs for any thing else, then for disvsage of a trifle.
1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 104 After so long a disusage it would be in vain to attempt it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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