exolete

English

Alternative forms

exolet ([17th C.])

Etymology

From the Latin exolētus, the perfect passive participle of exolescō, from ex +‎ olēscō (from oleō +‎ -ēscō).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛksəliːt/

Adjective

exolete (not comparable)

(obsolete) That has gone out of use; disused, obsolete.
- 1611, Thomas Coryat, Coryat’s Crudities, page 178:
  A Greeke inscription which I could not understand by reason of the antiquity of those exolete letters.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, part II, section iv, member i, subsection 5:
  In which [apothecaries’ shops] many…exolete, things out of date are to be had.
- 1651, George Digby, Letters between Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelm Digby, Knt. concerning Religion, chapter iv, page 125:
  Paganism is ridiculous, Judaism exolete.
- 1652, Thomas Urquhart, Ἐκσκυβαλαυρον; or, The Jewel in his Works (1834), page 211:
  Plautus exolet phrases have been [exploded] from the eloquent orations of Cicero.
- 1705, Nahum Tate (translator), Abraham Cowley (author), Cowley’s History of Plants: A Poem in Six Books (1795), Preface, page 20:
  I declaimed…against the use of exolete and interpolated repetitions of old fables.
(obsolete) That has lost its virtue; effete, insipid.
- 1657, Richard Tomlinson (translator), Jean de Renou (author), A Medicinal Diſpenſatory‎, page 283:
  The vulgar Carpobalſame…being…faint, rancid, exolet.
- 1676, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society XI, page 708:
  How exolete Blood falls asunder.
- 1684, an unknown translator of Théophile Bonet (author), Mercurius Compitalitius, chapter x, page 358:
  These Exoticks…are now and then deprived partly of their virtues and exolete.
(obsolete) (of flowers) Faded.
- 1730–6, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (folio edition), “Exolete”:
  Exolete, faded, or withered, as flowers.

References

“†E·xolete, a.” listed on page 416/1 of § 2 (E, ed. Henry Bradley) of volume III (D and E, 1897) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ek.soˈleː.te/, [ɛks̠ɔˈɫ̪eːt̪ɛ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.soˈle.te/, [eɡzoˈlɛːt̪e]

Participle

exolēte

vocative masculine singular of exolētus

单词	exolete
释义	exolete English Alternative forms exolet ([17th C.]) Etymology From the Latin exolētus, the perfect passive participle of exolescō, from ex +‎ olēscō (from oleō +‎ -ēscō). Pronunciation (Received Pronunciation, UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛksəliːt/ Adjective exolete (not comparable) (obsolete) That has gone out of use; disused, obsolete. 1611, Thomas Coryat, Coryat’s Crudities, page 178: A Greeke inscription which I could not understand by reason of the antiquity of those exolete letters. 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, part II, section iv, member i, subsection 5: In which [apothecaries’ shops] many…exolete, things out of date are to be had. 1651, George Digby, Letters between Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelm Digby, Knt. concerning Religion, chapter iv, page 125: Paganism is ridiculous, Judaism exolete. 1652, Thomas Urquhart, Ἐκσκυβαλαυρον; or, The Jewel in his Works (1834), page 211: Plautus exolet phrases have been [exploded] from the eloquent orations of Cicero. 1705, Nahum Tate (translator), Abraham Cowley (author), Cowley’s History of Plants: A Poem in Six Books (1795), Preface, page 20: I declaimed…against the use of exolete and interpolated repetitions of old fables. (obsolete) That has lost its virtue; effete, insipid. 1657, Richard Tomlinson (translator), Jean de Renou (author), A Medicinal Diſpenſatory‎, page 283: The vulgar Carpobalſame…being…faint, rancid, exolet. 1676, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society XI, page 708: How exolete Blood falls asunder. 1684, an unknown translator of Théophile Bonet (author), Mercurius Compitalitius, chapter x, page 358: These Exoticks…are now and then deprived partly of their virtues and exolete. (obsolete) (of flowers) Faded. 1730–6, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (folio edition), “Exolete”: Exolete, faded, or withered, as flowers. References “†E·xolete, a.” listed on page 416/1 of § 2 (E, ed. Henry Bradley) of volume III (D and E, 1897) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.) Latin Pronunciation (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek.soˈleː.te/, [ɛks̠ɔˈɫ̪eːt̪ɛ] (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.soˈle.te/, [eɡzoˈlɛːt̪e] Participle exolēte vocative masculine singular of exolētus
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