| 单词 | desuetude |
| 例句 | That photograph, when seen on the gallery wall, potently conveys the quandary of a man, aging but still vigorous, who has been consigned to pampered desuetude in his Palm Desert retirement. A Photographer Turned the Tables on His Parents to Learn About Himself 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z “This is the eschaton through lack of access, but also through human atrophy, debility, the desuetude of critical function.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z When first seen, Tom Scutt’s grand salon has a look of cobwebbed desuetude, with its peeling walls and furniture sheathed in dusty plastic. Review: ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ Uses Love as a Weapon 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z This is the eschaton through lack of access, but also through human atrophy, debility, the desuetude of critical function. In Don DeLillo’s New Novel, Technology Is Dead. Civilization Might Be, Too. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z He replies: “If so what was beyond but further desuetude?” Books of The Times: ‘The River Swimmer,’ Two Novellas by Jim Harrison 2013-01-15T19:55:50Z A very few people, not appearing to be up to much, sat far apart at desks in a dimly lighted panorama of desuetude. The Closing of the Village Voice, Downtown’s Magic Mirror 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Its exposed brick walls and wood-and-steel-beam floors, and signature rows of old sewing machines suggest nothing so much as an East London warehouse fallen into desuetude. | AllSaints Spitalfields: The Rugged Charm of Jack the Ripper?s London 2010-06-09T01:28:00Z The whole thing is an imaginary room, with walls, fake marbling, trompe l'oeil radiators, a phone on the wall, the scuffs and stains and desuetude of a formerly elegant house, subdivided for multiple occupation. A Bigger Splash: did performance art change painting? 2012-11-12T19:00:05Z Certainly we must now be set on a path to mental decay and desuetude. Opinion | What might ChatGPT do for humanity? The ancient Greeks offer a clue. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z By the fourth century, the gardens had apparently fallen into desuetude, and statuary in the abandoned pavilions was broken into pieces to build the foundations of a series of spas. Caligula’s Garden of Delights, Unearthed and Restored 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z There's a legal doctrine called "desuetude" that says statutes may lapse if they're never enforced, making it even more far-fetched that the Logan Act could be employed against Trump Jr. Was Donald Trump Jr.'s Russia Meeting Illegal? 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z As the harem fell into desuetude, women went out, first to shop, then to study and finally to work. Trump’s dangerous delusions about Islam | Christopher de Bellaigue 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The term “Negro” fell into desuetude 40 years or so ago; do Americans of college age really need to be told to avoid it? Durham, We Have a Problem 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z During the interview, he accurately used the word “desuetude” in a sentence. The Saturday Profile: John Bercow, House of Commons Speaker, Seeks to Quell the Unruly 2013-04-26T23:38:30Z Such commercial enterprise has long fallen into desuetude. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z Thus it happened that when that institution was falling into desuetude in the lands of its birth, it was for the first time regularly organized in Germany and given a substantive existence. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z There can be no doubt, that in course of time this assessment got into desuetude; that churchwardens, being the "distributors," they charged it on the church-rate by way of simplifying the machinery. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-04-03T02:00:26.740Z After the Reformation, the practice as to unborn children fell into desuetude, and the names with it. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z At first they both experienced a sense of desuetude and awkwardness, so that in spite of his stormy demonstrations he could not look her full in the face. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z These decrees, although having the force of law, soon fell into desuetude. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z In the reign of Louis the German, the excellent institutions of Charlemagne had begun to fall into desuetude; anarchy and violence had greatly increased. Secret Societies of the Middle Ages 2012-02-09T03:00:11.637Z The worst of such predicaments is, my dear Charles, that when one does write, everything one has, at a thousand scattered moments, previously wanted to say, seems to have dried up with desuetude and neglect. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z This prefix de- is negative and oppositive in destroy, desuetude, deform, or intensive in declare, desolate, desiccate. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z The profession of Knight Errantry having apparently fallen into desuetude, he had been compelled to resign himself to the prospect of a more humdrum occupation. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Although never repudiated, and although retrospectively sanctioned by the Syllabus, they fell into desuetude, under pressure from France, and from Protestant Europe. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z The laws against heresy have fallen into desuetude in England, but while they lasted they were simply ferocious. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z If it were not for their pertinacious adherence to their traditional faith, the Brahminical creed, at least in the great centres of education, would have long since fallen into desuetude. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z On that day the tap-root of materialism was wounded, and materialism itself has been an invalid of increasing languor and desuetude ever since. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z The power hasn’t been used for so long it’s probably fallen into desuetude. Murdochs Agree to Testify to Parliament After Contempt Threat 2011-07-15T00:02:30Z It manifests also some want of a disposition to co-operate in an important public institution, unhappily now fallen into desuetude. Pope: His Descent and Family Connections Facts and Conjectures 2011-06-29T02:00:22.613Z We have had a whole series of remedies, introduced with a promise of cure by distinguished authorities, used for a time with apparent success by many physicians, and then gradually falling into innocuous desuetude. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Festivals frequently fell into desuetude or were revived, were increased or diminished, were shortened or prolonged at the will of the emperor, or under the caprice of the popular taste. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The custom has fallen into "innocuous desuetude" and there appears to be no call for its revival. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Having no means the Commission could do absolutely nothing, and hence may be said to be in a state of "innocuous desuetude." Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z The coat as an article of dress had fallen into "innocuous desuetude." Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z All other Chambers of Commerce I have met, sink into desuetude and insignificance when compared with that of Cleveland. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z The fatuous formula which has infected all races, and is not yet extirpated in this country—the "I do not like you, Dr. Fell, the reason why I cannot tell"—passed into desuetude. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z A few continue to find local application, but most have either been abandoned or are gradually falling into desuetude. The Preparation of Plantation Rubber 2011-03-09T03:00:40.870Z He made a strong effort to revive the early morning services, which had quite fallen into desuetude at Whitford. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z The subject of Indian civilization fell, henceforward, into innocuous desuetude. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z But this is unnecessary; since, as Dr. Chalmers says, it “has fallen into utter disesteem and desuetude.” The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Since the commencement of the present century, the custom of consigning to a dungeon the brothers and kindred of the reigning monarch has fallen into desuetude in Northern Abyssinia. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z But, morally speaking, there is no obligation to obey a law that has fallen into desuetude. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z After the day of Pope the epistle again fell into desuetude, or occasional use, in England. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Amyot's works are a treasure house of the French language, and modern French critics often regret that many of his expressions have been allowed to sink into desuetude. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z It struck me as a very pretty custom, and I wondered why American Judaism had let it fall into desuetude. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z The most odious enactments of the code, those which involved personal degradation and outrage on family affection, had fallen into desuetude or been evaded. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z The second great investigation into BP's desuetude, once the gushing is over, will surely spread new slicks of sophistry far and wide. BP's theatre of the absurd 2010-06-20T19:00:00Z His theology is strongly tinged with Platonism, and this may account for his falling into desuetude. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The strict forms of marriage, which placed the wife in the power of her husband, fell more and more into desuetude. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The court of Audience, in which the archbishop presided personally, attended by his vicar-general, and sometimes by episcopal assessors, has fallen into desuetude. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" And when these had lasted a considerable time in any manor, the villenage of the latter, without any manumission, would have expired by desuetude. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 It seems reasonable to infer from the observed facts that, when they have fallen into comparative desuetude, temples are almost inert, so far as influence goes. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology From my friend Hawkins I borrowed baby-scales, fallen into desuetude, and triumphantly jotted down the ounces gained each week by Baby Paul. A Top-Floor Idyl In 1905 the labour clauses of this act, which had fallen into desuetude, were repealed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" One evening late in October she asked Irene casually, as if there had been no interval of desuetude, whether she were coming out. Carnival This custom has fallen into desuetude, for, since the advent of the Mounted Police, the perpetrators are treated as murderers and accordingly hanged. Seeds of Pine An old law or custom had existed in Russia to this effect; it had long fallen into desuetude; but on the present occasion it has been revived by the emperor, and is now in force. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. After we have quitted school, and commenced our career of profitable employment, these studies are seldom continued, and from desuetude are soon forgotten; or only revived, perhaps unaptly, in an occasional quotation. On the Nature of Thought or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence In England, by the middle of the 10th century, the prescriptions of the canonical life seem to have fallen into desuetude, and in nine cathedrals the canons were replaced by communities of Benedictines. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" The great majority are confined, one in a house, or in the innocuous desuetude of society, where there is no bond of common interest, but violent feminine competition. The Co-Citizens After dinner Henry came, and I began to teach him decimals; you wouldn’t think I knew them myself after so long desuetude! The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) Hard drinking has, generally speaking, fallen into desuetude. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign The interference of the State in social relations becomes superfluous in one domain after another, and falls of itself into desuetude. Woman under socialism I had been so busy for several months that all my symptoms had sunk into desuetude. Confessions of a Neurasthenic These principles are not new; they have fallen into desuetude. Some Imagist Poets An Anthology Before leaving Dumfries, let me allude to a very curious custom, observed only in St. Michael's church, and even there beginning to fall into desuetude. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 No such sum will ever be offered for land at Wittisham again; old orchard land, falling into desuetude as it is and covered with condemned cottages.” Robinetta This fashion, Germans inform you, is falling into desuetude; but it falls slowly. Home Life in Germany The old regulations, which were quite unsuited to the conditions of the time, either fell into desuetude during the eighteenth century, or were formally abolished during the earlier years of the industrial revolution. Liberalism To conclude our voyage, we have six or seven days of "innocuous desuetude." Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Among the Hebrews the ancient ceremonial dance appears as late as the time of David,229 though it was then, perhaps, falling into desuetude, since his wife, Michal, is disgusted at his procedures. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV It remains ancient without having lapsed into a state of desuetude that leaves everything to the imagination; it is a living whole far from any of the garishness that belongs to contemporaneity. Hampton Court Were it not for the women of India, Hinduism, with all its vaunted philosophy, its wonderful ritual and its mighty caste tyranny, would, within a decade, fall into “innocuous desuetude.” India's Problem, Krishna or Christ This law, in the words of a distinguished Statesman, was then allowed to relapse "into innocuous desuetude." Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century In the meantime, the “dark circle” went into desuetude, and Spiritualism, as a cult, declined. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology In modern times formal declaration of war has fallen greatly into desuetude. The Map of Life Conduct and Character In time, all this criminal code was to fall into desuetude, and no one to-day wishes it back again. The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church This useful provision for the instruction of legal probationers has fallen into desuetude—no place is reserved for the students now-a-days. Bardell v. Pickwick Toasts have also fallen into "desuetude" at private dinners. The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men This quaintly charming manor of minute dimensions was a tangible, habitable abode in 1333, but for generations after appears to have fallen into desuetude. Royal Palaces and Parks of France The obligation of reading the statute in churches was abolished in 1823, but the custom had before fallen into desuetude. The Map of Life Conduct and Character But, however that may be, we have contemporary native evidence that the rite of marriage had fallen into desuetude, and that Malachy was successful in his effort to restore it. St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh The original rights of the proprietor, the projector and grantee of the earliest settlement, had in all cases, save in those of Pennsylvania and Maryland, either ceased to exist or fallen into desuetude. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 New York is too large for such things, and dancing cards have been relegated to the realms of innocuous desuetude. The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men On the other side shone the white plates of some old shakos of the time of Lafayette—five or six, no more—the National Guard having fallen into desuetude at Chavignolles. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Imposts fallen into desuetude, monopolies abandoned by Elizabeth, royal forests extended beyond the limits they had in feudal times, fines past all endurance, confiscations without end, imprisonments, tortures, and executions,—all marked these eleven years. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Done! nothing," said Campbell; "is there no such thing as the desuetude of a law? Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert Curiously enough, this dainty adjunct to the attire had fallen into desuetude among women. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly We are always pleased to see these practical object-lessons in the advantage of having large families—a custom which is in danger of falling into desuetude. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 They have served also for dance music, and the two-step, borne into vogue by Sousa's music, has driven the waltz almost into desuetude. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions A little later the Oak Hill district was quietly quashed and its honorable board of education went into "innocuous desuetude." The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy George I, the successor of Queen Anne, regarded the Royal Touch as a purely superstitious method of healing, and during his reign the practice fell into desuetude. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery A similar state of affairs existed next door, and glancing across lots, he saw that the same desuetude prevailed throughout the entire neighborhood. The Servant Problem The old word, it will be perceived, has not altogether fallen187 into desuetude, but is confined to one very special exercise of the authority it had formerly denoted. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Old customs, no doubt, are vanishing: I have looked in vain for the bootmakers' Fidlovačka and the tailors' revels in Stromovka, the butchers' special form of annual rejoicing seems also to have fallen into desuetude. From a Terrace in Prague Both practices, I believe, have long since fortunately fallen into desuetude. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Haruspicy and the augural art were abandoned, and not even the ancient fame of the oracles could save them from falling into irretrievable desuetude. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism The practice which formerly prevailed among the Bishnois of burying their dead in the courtyard of the house by the cattle-stalls has now fallen into desuetude as being insanitary. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II Every possible means was employed to discover heretics, and to assist the object Philip renewed a royal ordinance—fallen into desuetude—allowing to informers the fourth part of the property of those guilty of heresy. The Last Look A Tale of the Spanish Inquisition Often, in a series of drawers, one of them falls into the idle habit of being overlooked, slipping gradually by custom into desuetude, though other drawers may overflow. Clayhanger So, wearying of the innocuous desuetude of things, it occurred to them to present for Frank's entertainment a bodily representation of what the words meant to their minds. The Madigans The "governments" of later times, corresponding roughly to the provinces, had fallen likewise into desuetude and the governors had become inactive pensioners. The Governments of Europe One night, at a party, I became utterly bewildered in an attempt to converse, after long desuetude, with a fascinating woman. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 If not, it soon fell into innocuous desuetude again. Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages This custom was kept up until early in this century, when it fell into desuetude. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide These practices are, however, more particularly observed in our cathedrals and college chapels than in our parochial churches, in most of which they have fallen into desuetude. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. Temporarily war rumors must sink into innocuous desuetude and other old things. A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson In fact, one of them wanted to revive painting, an art fallen into desuetude owing to the progress made in color-photography. In the Year 2889 The one practice he did not suffer to fall into desuetude was his daily bolt into the Salles de Jeu; of that she could always be a secure and interested spectator. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World In many parts of the country it was made a regular festival, but, like all these old customs, it has fallen into desuetude. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide Some of these ancient usages have fallen into desuetude. The Customs of Old England Disciplinary applications of the old type have fallen into innocuous desuetude; the penny now tempts, the sugar candy soothes and sugar-coated promises entice when the rod should quell and blister. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals Their ancestors had brought the principle with them from the old country, in which the system of the "militia ballot" had not fallen into desuetude when they became independent. Abraham Lincoln Then it fell into a state of somnolence, and after an existence of innocuous desuetude lasting till 1794 it was revived, only to hibernate again until 1894. Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English In the Isle of Man they had a custom which has, probably, dropped into desuetude, of all going to church on Christmas eve, each bearing the largest candle procurable. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide The habit of snuffing had long been falling into desuetude. The Social History of Smoking He had, indeed, something of an instinctive genius for finding words that had passed more or less into desuetude, and a happy way of re-introducing them to enrich the plainer prose of his day. Charles Lamb I regret somewhat acutely the desuetude of the periwig. Masques & Phases During the Revolutionary War wigs were scare and costly, linen was almost unobtainable and the practice of shaving heads accordingly fell rapidly into desuetude. History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia There is reason to suppose that the latter regulations are the outcome of earlier status regulations which have fallen into desuetude. Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia So it remained in innocuous desuetude, a mere name in "Beilstein's Dictionary," together with the thousands of other organic compounds that have been invented and never utilized. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries And well it may be, since the axiom that noblesse oblige has fallen into desuetude, and the word of a gentleman is no more to swear by than a huckster's. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax But long before the disappearance of what was known as the commercial lawyer, there are evidences that the former courts of law, even before their entire abandonment, had fallen into a partial desuetude. The Man in Court Their presence indeed, though still at times granted on some solemn occasions, became so pure a formality that by the end of the fifteenth century it had sunk wholly into desuetude. History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 But now that regular guarantees for the security of life and property exist, the custom appears to have fallen into desuetude. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Now the captains of industry are the commanding figures of the day and the student, the poet, the philosopher, the statesman have gone into innocuous desuetude. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 The Chinese characters did not give way to an Indian alphabet nor did the Confucian Classics fall into desuetude. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Rather, they were the relics of customs which had not very long fallen into desuetude. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century And the place, stripped of all its commercial attributes, had fallen into an immense desuetude, to which the charm of silence, and of a deeper solitude than it had ever possessed before, was attached. A Comedy of Masks A Novel It is a curious fact that the custom which now created such violent excitement gradually passed into desuetude. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution He stayed four days, and was dismissed for innocuous desuetude. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm When the crusades ceased, in the thirteenth century, indulgences did not fall into desuetude. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation After the fall of the Western Empire, about the beginning of the sixth century, when it was finally repaired by Theodoric, it fell into desuetude. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood It seemed to offer at least the negative invitation of desuetude. The Day of Days An Extravaganza He had therefore consciously violated a law on his own responsibility, which he knew to exist, but which he perhaps trusted had fallen into desuetude, and would not again be revived. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) But to tell the truth, their part has almost fallen into desuetude. The Cathedral That, as it seems to us, is the specifically critical activity, and one which is in peril of death from desuetude. Aspects of Literature When in my bureaucratic capacity I have come across some legislative ordinance that has fallen into desuetude because of its manifest absurdity, I have always endeavoured to apply it. Tragic Sense Of Life This very ancient and rude contrivance had been employed in many countries as well as our own; nor had it as yet fallen into complete desuetude in parts of Scotland and the Shetland Islands. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines And finally, should he yield to the solicitation of Europe, and enact liberal laws one day, only to let them fall into desuetude the next, diplomatists are once more disarmed. The Roman Question The fine-spun, elaborate theories about sex, so current twenty years ago, have fallen into almost complete desuetude among scientists. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Many of the minute and rigorous precautions for preventing communication with the world outside the conclave have also fallen into desuetude. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 Laws that have fallen into desuetude are the most terrible of all laws, when the cause of the desuetude is the badness of the law. Tragic Sense Of Life Among certain indulgent officials these enactments had been allowed to fall into desuetude. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 It is true, the fashion of wearing the collar, whether gold or silver, may be said to have been in desuetude for centuries. Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 Many of these routine reports will remain in innocuous desuetude. The Art of the Moving Picture As a source of valuable information, it beats the Encyclopedia Brittanica in an easy hand gallop; the tonsorial artist is not in its class and even the 'Intelligence Office,' pales into innocuous desuetude beside it. Said the Observer Those sports are dangerous, and the accidents were so serious in later years that the peasants determined to allow the ceremony of the livrées to fall into desuetude. The Devil's Pool In the heat of the excitement of war the system lost almost all of its rigor, the slave codes in some cases falling into desuetude. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 The hills are a paradise for birds; the practice of snaring the wheatear for market has lately fallen into desuetude and the "Sussex ortolan" is becoming more numerous than it was a dozen years ago. Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End It will be a welcome relief if camouflage, as popular five years ago as fin-de-si�cle twenty-five years ago, shall follow that now unfashionable vocable into what an American president once described as 'innocuous desuetude'. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems It would seem to be the wish of certain clergymen, who have of late brought back into use many ceremonial observances that had fallen into desuetude, to revive this ancient custom. Routledge's Manual of Etiquette Shintoism was the weakest and sank into helpless desuetude. The Constitutional Development of Japan 1863-1881 No bond united him to the Saint-Germain quarters now in its dotage, scaling into the dust of desuetude, buried in a new society like an empty husk. Against the Grain The assertion is often made that the church is an effete institution; that its usefulness is past; that it is sinking into innocuous desuetude. The Church and Modern Life All elegant customs of this nature have fallen into desuetude in England, though many of them are still kept up in other parts of Europe. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden In particular I have been vexing myself to-day over the gradual desuetude of our correspondence. The Delectable Duchy This custom which Varro regrets had fallen into desuetude so far as Rome was concerned was in his day still practised in the provinces. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro He rekindled in Austrasia the national spirit and some political life by beginning again the old March parades of the Franks, which had fallen into desuetude under the last Merovingians. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 The poet is not so much a joke to the multitude as he was a few years ago, and the term "minor poet" seems to have fallen into desuetude. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Several planters thereabouts had attempted it on a commercial scale, in former years, with greater or less success; but like most Southern industries, it had felt the blight of war and had fallen into desuetude. The Conjure Woman When the panic passed the petty masters resumed their customary indolence of control and the police officers, justly incredulous of public danger, let the rigors of the law relapse into desuetude. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Towns along the line—hamlets long since fallen into the way-station rut of desuetude—awoke with a start, bestirring themselves joyfully to meet the inspiriting conditions. The Grafters Some years ago the breeding of mules for export was a recognized local concern, but this seems to have fallen into desuetude. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter She was wondering if the request that had been so unexpectedly made of her would prove to be her way out from her prison of desuetude. The Apartment Next Door This old house had wasted—more from desuetude than it would have wasted from use, twenty years for one. Our Mutual Friend Such transactions were those of the most responsible and substantial citizens, laboring to maintain social order in the face of the law's desuetude. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime The monoplane gradually fell into desuetude, mainly owing to the difficulty of making that type adequately strong without it becoming prohibitively heavy, and also because of its high landing speed and general lack of manoeuvrability. A History of Aeronautics The consequence is, that many words must fall into desuetude, and others must be brought into use. Democracy in America — Volume 2 When our fathers quarreled they took a pot-shot at each other at ten paces; now disagreements involving even family honor are carried into the courts—the bloody Code Duello has been relegated to "innocuous desuetude." Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 After dinner Henry came, and I began to teach him decimals; you wouldn't think I knew them myself after so long desuetude! Vailima Letters The causeway down which the horsemen of forgotten kings of Khandawar had clattered forth to war, in its age-old desuetude had come to decay. The Bronze Bell Bending almost double Lanyard moved rapidly northward on the footway beside the western tracks, and so gained the old station on the west side of Fifty-eighth Street, for years dedicated to the uses of desuetude. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Moreover the law had fallen into disuse—or, as the President put it—into "innocuous desuetude." The United States Since the Civil War Up to date, me and my Zigler had lived in innocuous desuetude owing to little odds and ends riding out of gear. Traffics and Discoveries A political society, which recognises custom as one of the bases of law, must recognise desuetude as equally valid. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate All our ideas of life, materiality, spirituality, animality, vegetability, sensibility, etc., would have to fall into greater or less desuetude, the language disappearing with the ideas. Life: Its True Genesis That method was costly and had dropped into desuetude; but the new method of a committee of fellowship saved true Congregational methods and freed the churches from unworthy men. Unitarianism in America We hope that scientists will consign to innocuous desuetude their camouflaged sesquipedalian vocabularies, and tell us what they mean in short words, so we all may know what they say. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments But in New York it is a custom which is in danger of falling into desuetude, owing to the size of the city and the growth of its population. Manners and Social Usages Not, be it observed, except indirectly, his theosophical novelties; the penalty of death for deviations from the True Faith had long fallen into desuetude in Persia, if indeed it had ever taken root there. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions This practice, however, kept gradually falling into desuetude until the time of Pope Alexander II. Purgatory Her heartless detention of railway porters staggering under their burdens, her browbeating of "tradespeople," cause this observer of fine susceptibilities and an acute sense of the becoming to lament the desuetude of the ducking-stool. From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 This long desuetude induced Sir James Stephen, in his "Digest of the Criminal Law" to regard it as "practically obsolete." Prisoner for Blasphemy Playing with dolls would seem to be too fundamentally little-girlish ever to fall into desuetude. The American Child It was introduced by that people into Germany, Gaul, and, no doubt, Britain; although, in this last, it may have been suffered to pass into desuetude for some centuries. The Book of Household Management It is unwise to allow ancient prerogatives to fall entirely into desuetude. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales Now, the colonel of a regiment of light cavalry is so little given to beg for things that the word beg has almost lapsed out of his vocabulary from desuetude. The Winds of the World Laws, like customs, may cease to have a significance, and they may be modified or allowed to fall into desuetude. A Handbook of Ethical Theory They are not habitations, which connote life; they are repositories, which connote desuetude. This Freedom A drop to desuetude may of its last half be far more silent than of its first. A Fool There Was The desuetude of Latin as a common language for scholars is to be regretted; it kept the thinkers of Europe in touch, and kept out the profanum vulgus. Without Prejudice Now, in the case of Madagascar, the formalities had originally been observed, but by neglect they had fallen into desuetude ages ago. Following the Equator, Part 7 It is clear to me that the Examiner would be starved out of existence, and the censorship perish of desuetude. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet Hence, need there is of exercising this right, that it may not be lost, effete and obsolete, and fall into desuetude, the which would occasion troubles manifold. The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast The commonwealth fell, the loan bank closed its coffers and its books on a sensible loss, the rules of life which he had drawn about himself fell into desuetude. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Can this generation "—in the foremost files of time—" afford to believe that a grim significance lurks in the desuetude of typical judicial ermine? At the Mercy of Tiberius In Australia, it may be worth while to remark, this custom, with many other religious observances, has fallen into entire desuetude. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn This is the mere revival of an old claim, too vast to be allowed to lapse from desuetude. Sybil, or the Two Nations On this side there is no such fear; the peace and desuetude are eternal; and the winding sheet of the Arabian sands is ready always for its burial office. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) But it gradually lapsed into desuetude and was preserved only in the outlying regions. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] In one corner stood an oak spinning-wheel, more than centenarian in age, fallen into hopeless desuetude, but gay with the strings of scarlet pepper pods hung up to dry, and twined among its silent spokes. At the Mercy of Tiberius It is difficult not to conclude that this was a relic of a rite fallen into desuetude. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples We have pointed out several reasons for believing that this practice was formerly general, and that it has fallen into desuetude, but is hardly yet quite extinct. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo Our contemporary desecrators have up till now respected the infinite desuetude of the place, and, for the tourists who begin to haunt it, no one yet has dared to build a hotel. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Though access for such purposes had formerly never been denied, the custom had fallen into desuetude; and in contemplating her possible difficulties, she was again almost driven to fall back upon her husband. Wessex Tales The truth is that some invidious privileges of peerage which have since been abolished, and others which have since fallen into entire desuetude, were then in full force, and were daily used. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Among the Organic Articles, almost all of them which subjected or repressed the bishop fell into discredit or into desuetude. The Modern Regime, Volume 2 The States-General are fallen into desuetude, and the king may with truth declare himself the sole representative of the country. The Ancient Regime Thus the art gradually fell into desuetude, and now it is numbered with the things that were. Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance But this is a right which cannot be abrogated by desuetude, and the sum of one pound per annum is still chargeable for charitable purposes on the manorial farm of Hautbois. Crotchet Castle I understood that the multitude of these statues was beginning to be felt as an encumbrance in almost every family, and that the custom would probably before long fall into desuetude. Erewhon She had left them a Social Position—one, which even after twenty years of desuetude, was fit for use. The Shape of Fear Formerly the seignior of Blet enforced, in this case, the right of redemption which has been allowed to fall into desuetude. The Ancient Regime Greece, after her brief day of political supremacy, was sinking rapidly into desuetude, and the hard-headed Roman in the West was making himself master everywhere. A History of Science — Volume 1 Suddenly all the bells in the town rang out the curfew,—a custom fallen elsewhere into desuetude, but still observed in the provinces, where venerable habits are abolished slowly. Maitre Cornelius There has been no Act to repress statues that are intended for private consumption, but as I have said, the custom is falling into desuetude. Erewhon In process of time this religious house again fell into desuetude; but before it disappeared it had achieved a great name for good works, and in especial for the piety of its members. Lair of the White Worm But all their learning is forgotten, their cares and controversies are laid aside, in "innocuous desuetude." Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things |
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