"desuete" meaning in English

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      "form": "more desuete",
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          "ref": "1819, The Practical Abridgement of the Laws of Customs and Excise, page 10:",
          "text": "Every act that has not been repealed or expired is given, it being apprehended that no statute can ever according to the English law, technically speaking, become desuete or obsolete.",
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          "ref": "1894, Sir Max Beerbohm, The Works of Max Beerbohm, published 2019:",
          "text": "Since the day of Mr. Brummell and King George, the noble art of self-adornment had fallen partially desuete.",
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        {
          "ref": "1901, Prince Albert Wright, Wright's Bookkeeping Simplified, page 92:",
          "text": "According to modern methods the intermediate entry is dispensed with, also the desuete Day-book, the first entry being made in books specially designed, and the final entry in the Ledger, the design of which is continued in its primitive simplicity.",
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          "ref": "1905, Missouri. Department of Education, Report of the Public Schools of the State of Missouri, page 55:",
          "text": "These opinions, founded on desuete customs are generally erroneous.",
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          "ref": "1911, George Studson Delano, Sasanoa and the Wool Witch: A Romance of Legendary History, page 38:",
          "text": "Scarce seemeth it true that man can believe\nA human mind would such horrors conceive,\nAs there were enwrought out of red men's bones,\nAnd bodies desuete, responsive to spells\nBy which man keeps them, until he atones\nFor the worship of self, which in all men dwells;",
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        "Disused; out of use."
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  "word": "desuete"
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          "ref": "1894, Sir Max Beerbohm, The Works of Max Beerbohm, published 2019:",
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          "ref": "1901, Prince Albert Wright, Wright's Bookkeeping Simplified, page 92:",
          "text": "According to modern methods the intermediate entry is dispensed with, also the desuete Day-book, the first entry being made in books specially designed, and the final entry in the Ledger, the design of which is continued in its primitive simplicity.",
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          "text": "These opinions, founded on desuete customs are generally erroneous.",
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          "ref": "1911, George Studson Delano, Sasanoa and the Wool Witch: A Romance of Legendary History, page 38:",
          "text": "Scarce seemeth it true that man can believe\nA human mind would such horrors conceive,\nAs there were enwrought out of red men's bones,\nAnd bodies desuete, responsive to spells\nBy which man keeps them, until he atones\nFor the worship of self, which in all men dwells;",
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