单词 | non-usage |
释义 | non-usagen. Cessation of the use of something; failure or neglect to use something. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > [noun] unusagec1374 non-usinga1533 non-use1542 non-usage1552 miswonting1606 unuse1611 unexercise1640 non-usance1646 inusitation1802 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Non vsage, dissuetudo. 1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vi. x. 31 As vsage continueth the property of a tenure, so non-usage implieth a forfeiture. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxvii. 221 Non-usage oftentimes destroys ones Right. 1838–42 M. F. Tupper Proverb. Philos. (1853) 427 For use will mould and mark it, or non-usage dull and blunt it. 1870 Harper's Mag. Nov. 950/2 The law requiring sales to be advertised in the three most public places in the county had become obsolete from non-usage. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 22 Feb. 3/2 The point of non-usage was brought forward, and..it was distinctly laid down that ‘omission is not prohibition’. 1922 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 16 Suppl. 133 Any patent..shall not be liable to forfeiture or cancellation solely for failure to work or non-usage before the expiration of a period of two years. 1993 Man 28 850/2 Ruane offers a comprehensive overview of the usage (or non-usage) of this notion in a range of disciplinary approaches to Irish history. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1552 |
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