"exolete" meaning in English

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          "text": "In which [apothecaries’ shops] many…exolete, things out of date are to be had."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