Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
absolete. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
absolete, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
absolete in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
absolete you have here. The definition of the word
absolete will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
absolete, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Adjective
absolete (comparative more absolete, superlative most absolete)
- Obsolete form of obsolete.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Education, custome, continuance of time, condition, mixt with other diseases, by fits, inclination, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 3, member 1, subsection 4, page 172:[T]he ſecond [symptom] is, falſò cogitata loqui, to talke to themſelues, or to vſe inarticulate, incondite voices, ſpeeches, abſolete geſtures, […].
1839, Brakenbury Dickson Bogie, The Crisis; Or, the Great Religious Revolution and the Fall of the National Churches, Etc. Etc. According to the Revelation of St. John, page 298:They say that the doctrine is absolete, and that to charge them with holding it is a vile and odious imputation. The fact is, that the church possesses no power to enforce it, and therefore it is absolete.
1856, John Romeyn Brodhead, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, volume 7, page 616:How low it is to give New Jersey as an instance, that the Patent to the Duke of York is absolete?
Anagrams