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Word Meanings - EFFETE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile. Effete results from virile efforts. Mrs. Browning If

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No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile. Effete results from virile efforts. Mrs. Browning If they find the old governments effete, worn out, . . . they may seek new ones. Burke.

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  • ANTIQUATION
    The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont.
  • OBSOLETENESS
    Indistinctness; want of development. (more info) 1. The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.
  • CRIPPLY
    Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. Mrs. Trollope.
  • ANTIQUATED
    Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Ancient; old; antique; obsolete. See
  • ENFEEBLISH
    To enfeeble. Holland.
  • SUPERANNUATION
    The state of being superannuated, or too old for office or business; the state of being disqualified by old age; decrepitude. The world itself is in a state of superannuation. Cowper. Slyness blinking through the watery eye of superannuation.
  • TOTTER
    1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
  • CRIPPLENESS
    Lameness. Johnson.
  • ENFEEBLER
    One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
  • OBSOLETE
    Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive. Syn. -- Ancient; antiquated; old-fashioned; antique; old; disused; neglected. See Ancient. (more info) 1. No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected;
  • ARCHAICAL
    Archaic. -- Ar*cha"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • SUPERANNUATE
    1. To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity. Sir T. Browne. 2. To give a pension to, on account of old age or other infirmity; to cause to retire from service on a pension.
  • DECREPITNESS
    Decrepitude. Barrow.
  • INFIRMNESS
    Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle.
  • TOTTERY
    Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking. Johnson.
  • 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.
  • TOTTERINGLY
    In a tottering manner.
  • INFIRMARIAN
    A person dwelling in, or having charge of, an infirmary, esp. in a monastic institution.
  • CRIPPLER
    A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight.
  • DECREPITATE
    To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
  • TITTER-TOTTER
    See TEETER

 

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