| 单词 |
inusitate |
| 释义 |
inusitate, a. Now rare.|ɪˈnjuːzɪteɪt| [ad. L. inūsitāt-us, f. in- (in-3) + ūsitātus, pa. pple. of ūsitāri to use often.] Unwonted, unusual, out of use.
1546St. Papers Hen. VIII, XI. 95 A thing very strange and inusitate. 1624F. White Repl. Fisher 439 Bread may be called the bodie of Christ by an inusitate forme of speaking. 1656Bramhall Replic. i. 59, I finde some inusitate expressions. 1881Academy 19 Nov. 381/1 The word ‘despicion’ is dangerously inusitate. Hence iˈnusitateness, the state of being unused.
1888Sat. Rev. 15 Dec. 706/2 Careful indications of the line which separates actual inelegancy or worse from mere ‘inusitateness’ [of words]. |

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