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Obsolete - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Obsolete : adj
1: old; no longer in use or valid or fashionable; "obsolete
words"; "an obsolete locomotive"; "outdated
equipment"; "superannuated laws"; "out-of-date ideas"
[syn: outdated, out-of-date, superannuated]
2: no longer in use; "obsolete words" [syn: disused]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Obsolete : \Ob"so*lete\, a. [L. obsoletus, p. p. of obsolescere.
See Obsolescent.]
1. No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected;
as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied
chiefly to words, writings, or observances.
2. (Biol.) Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental;
imperfectly developed; abortive.
Syn: Ancient; antiquated; old-fashioned; antique; old;
disused; neglected. See Ancient.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Obsolete : \Ob"so*lete\, v. i.
To become obsolete; to go out of use. [R.] --Fitzed. Hall.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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OBSOLETE. This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy,
without being repealed,
2. A positive statute, unrepealed, can never be repealed by non-user
alone. 4 Yeates, Rep. 181; Id. 215; 1 Browne's Rep. Appx. 28; 13 Serg. &
Rawle, 447. The disuse of a law is at most only presumptive evidence that
society has consented to such a repeal; however this presumption may operate
on an unwritten law, it cannot in general act upon one which remains as a
legislative act on the statute book, because no presumption can set aside a
certainty. A written law may indeed becomeObsolete : when the object to which
it was intended to apply, or the occasion for which it was enacted, no
longer exists. 1 P. A. Browne's R. App. 28. "It must be a very strong case,"
says Chief Justice Tilghman, "to justify the court in deciding, that an act
standing on the statute book, unrepealed, is obsolete and invalid. I will
not say that such case may not exist -- where there has been a non-user for
a great number of years; where, from a change of times and manners, an
ancient sleeping statute would do great mischief, if suddenly brought into
action; where a long, practice inconsistent with it has prevailed, and,
specially, where from other and latter statutes it might be inferred that in
the apprehension of the legislature, the old one was not in force." 13 Serg.
& Rawle, 452; Rutherf. Inst. B. 2, c. 6, s. 19; Merl. Repert. mot Desuetude.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Obsolete |
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moehlert: RT @JaneBozarth: RT @koreenolbrish Fascinating RT @filmutopia: List of Obsolete skills http://tinyurl.com/yexd5lk /via @llapen |
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rfilsinger: RT @revsinister: Ok, mankind has gone to far. Now you can smite us God, go ahead. http://twitpic.com/utilx // the snuggie is now Obsolete |
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sarahrob97: @dannychun are there even chat rooms anymore? "you've got mail" has become so Obsolete! |
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