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語源

From the Latin exolētus, the perfect passive participle of exolescō, from ex +‎ olēscō (from oleō +‎ -ēscō).

発音

• (Received 発音, 英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɛksəliːt/

形容詞

exolete (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) That has gone out of use; disused, obsolete.
   • 1611, Thomas Coryat, Coryat’s Crudities, page 178:

     A Greeke inscription which I could not understand by reason of the antiquity of those exolete letters.

   • 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     In which [apothecaries’ shops] many…exolete, things out of date are to be had.

   • 1651, George Digby, Letters between Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelm Digby, Knt. concerning Religion, chapter iv, page 125:

     Paganism is ridiculous, Judaism exolete.

   • 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.

   • 1705, Nahum Tate (translator), Abraham Cowley (author), Cowley’s History of Plants: A Poem in Six Books (1795), Preface, page 20:

     I declaimed…against the use of exolete and interpolated repetitions of old fables.

2. (obsolete) That has lost its virtue; effete, insipid.
   • 1657, Richard Tomlinson (translator), Jean de Renou (author), A Medicinal Diſpenſatory‎^[1], page 283:

     The vulgar Carpobalſame…being…faint, rancid, exolet.