Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In descriptive zoöl., in an obsolete manner; not plainly: as, obsoletely punctured, striate, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an obsolete manner.
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- adverb biology Imperfectly or indistinctly developed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There is something uniquely dugri, something shockingly honest, something uniquely, resolutely, perhaps obsoletely Israeli about the performance.
Bradley Burston: Bob Dylan, It Turns Out, Lives in Israel Bradley Burston 2011
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There is something uniquely dugri, something shockingly honest, something uniquely, resolutely, perhaps obsoletely Israeli about the performance.
Bradley Burston: Bob Dylan, It Turns Out, Lives in Israel Bradley Burston 2011
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The ear of wheat (in Latin spica, obsoletely speca, from spe, hope) should not be the only hope of the husbandman; its kernel or grain (granum from gerendo, bearing) is not all that it bears.
Walden 2004
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The ear of wheat, (in Latin spica, obsoletely speca, from spe, hope,) should not be the only hope of the husbandman; its kernel or grain (ranum, from erendo, bearing,) is not all that it bears.
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The ear of wheat (in Latin spica, obsoletely speca, from spe, hope) should not be the only hope of the husbandman; its kernel or grain (granum from gerendo, bearing) is not all that it bears.
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The ear of wheat (in Latin spica, obsoletely speca, from spe, hope) should not be the only hope of the husbandman; its kernel or grain (granum from gerendo, bearing) is not all that it bears.
Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839
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…but you`re right: people like Razi-Pope spread that sugar in one obsoletely kind that even the simple-minded part of grassroots can schleck and leak and lick…. and forget all other things outside of this candy-unconscious-world-picture!
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In colour it is generally like the preceding, but in addition to the two terminal punctures of the elytra, their base is more or less, but gene - rally obsoletely. tinged with obscure rufous.
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Shell short, broadly fusiform; spire and mouth equal; whorls seyen, the first nuclear, the other regularly sloping above, obsoletely nodose on the angle and tapering in advance.
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4. It is clearly false to say that natural law theory uses the term 'law' obsoletely; the term 'law' is clearly still often used in this sense, and it makes no sense to call a usage obsolete that still is common.
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