exolete

== English == === Alternative forms === exolet ([17th C.]) === Etymology === From the Latin exolētus, the perfect passive participle of exolescō, from ex +‎ olēscō (from oleō +‎ -ēscō). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, UK) IPA(key): /ˈɛksəliːt/ === Adjective === exolete (not comparable) (obsolete) That has gone out of use; disused, obsolete. 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, part II, section iv, member i, subsection 5: In which [apothecaries’ shops] many…exolete, things out of date are to be had. 1652, Thomas Urquhart, Ἐκσκυβαλαυρον; or, The Jewel in his Works (1834), page 211: Plautus exolet phrases have been [exploded] from the eloquent orations of Cicero. (obsolete) That has lost its virtue; effete, insipid. 1684, an unknown translator of Théophile Bonet (author), Mercurius Compitalitius, chapter x, page 358: These Exoticks…are now and then deprived partly of their virtues and exolete. (obsolete) (of flowers) Faded. 1730–6, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (folio edition), “Exolete”: Exolete, faded, or withered, as flowers. === References === “†E·xolete, a.” listed on page 416/1 of § 2 (E, ed. Henry Bradley) of volume III (D and E, 1897) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.) == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛk.sɔˈɫeː.tɛ] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eɡ.zoˈlɛː.te] === Participle === exolēte vocative masculine singular of exolētus