Definition of "disused"
disused
adjective
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Quotations
But as time & experience do reforme euery thing that is amisse, so this bitter poeme called the old Comedy, being disused and taken away, the new Comedy came in place, more ciuill and pleasant a great deale and not touching any man by name, but in a certain generalitie glancing at euery abuse,
1589, George Puttenham, chapter 14, in The Arte of English Poesie
In Scotland the custom, now disused in England, of inviting the relations of the deceased to the interment is universally retained.
1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], “Chapter 37”, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […]
The tables, for instance, were to be covered with baize, but when the patron found that baize was expensive he bought instead disused army blankets, smelling incorrigibly of sweat.
1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […]
The old station buildings and train shed at Redcar Central were taken out of use around 30 years ago and became a business centre, but are currently disused. Redcar & Cleveland Council has plans to improve the station, including better passenger facilities and retail units.
2020 January 2, Graeme Pickering, “Fuelling the changes on Teesside rails”, in Rail, page 61, photo caption