Word Meanings - DISUSAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse. Hooker.

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• CUSTOM
  Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without
• GRADUAL
  Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline. Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense,
• CUSTOMARY
  Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate. (more info) 1. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. Even now I met him With customary compliment.
• CUSTOMABLE
  1. Customary. Sir T. More. 2. Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.
• CUSTOMHOUSE
  The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels.
• GRADUALITY
  The state of being gradual; gradualness. Sir T. Browne.
• DISUSE
  1. To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of. 2. To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil. "Disuse me from . . . pain." Donne.
• NEGLECTION
  The state of being negligent; negligence. Shak.
• CUSTOMER
  1. One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. Hakluyt. 2. One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.
• GRADUALLY
  1. In a gradual manner. 2. In degree. Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes. Grew.
• CESSATION
  A ceasing of discontinuance, as of action, whether termporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war. The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. Motley. The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward.
• CUSTOMARINESS
  Quality of being customary.
• CUSTOMABLENESS
  Quality of being customable; conformity to custom.
• NEGLECTFUL
  Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. Pope. A cold and neglectful countenance. Locke. Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. Arbuthnot. -- Neg*lect"ful*ly,
• NEGLECTEDNESS
  The state of being neglected.
• NEGLECTER
  One who neglects. South.
• CUSTOMARILY
  In a customary manner; habitually.
• NEGLECT
  disregard, neglect, the literal sense prob. neing, not to pick up; nec not, nor (fr. ne not + -que, a particle akin to Goth. -h, -uh, and prob. to E. who; cf. Goth. nih nor) + L. legere to pick up, 1. Not to attend to with due care or attention;
• NEGLECTINGLY
  Carelessly; heedlessly. Shak.
• HOOKER
  1. One who, or that which, hooks. A Dutch vessel with two masts. A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland. A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• DISACCUSTOM
  To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.
• SELF-NEGLECTING
  A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.
• ACCUSTOMABLE
  Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer.
• ACCUSTOM
  To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; - - with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer. Syn. -- To habituate;
• ACCUSTOMABLY
  According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. Latimer.
• UNCUSTOMABLE
  Not customable, or subject to custom duties.