But in gradually succumbing to the vulgar misunderstanding, playing up to the caricature, and finally assimilating to the crude and obsolescent methods of men, the suffragettes have been throwing away their own peculiar glory, their characteristic contribution to history and politics.

"I only meant," pleaded Mr. Clarkson, "that an obsolescent jest is, like middle-age, occasionally vapid, possessing neither the interest of antiquity nor the freshness of surprise.

This conception of "humours," based on a physiology which was already obsolescent, takes heavily from the realism of Jonson's methods, nor does his use of a careful vocabulary of contemporary colloquialism and slang save him from a certain dryness and tediousness to modern readers.

We count our strength in Dreadnoughts and Super-Dreadnoughts, and so long as we are spending our national resources upon them faster than any other country, if we sink at least £160 for every £100 sunk in these obsolescent monsters by Germany, we have a reassuring sense of keeping ahead and being thoroughly safe.

In my opinion, our grammarians have shown far more affection for the obsolete or obsolescent terminations en, eth, est, and edst, than they really deserve.

The advocates for Johnson and opponents of Webster, who are now so zealously stickling for the k and the u in these cases, ought to know that they are contending for what was obsolete, or obsolescent, when Dr. Johnson was a boy. OBS.

And which is the greater innovation, merely to drop, on familiar occasions, or when it suits our style, one obsolescent verbal termination,a termination often dropped of old as well as now,or to strike from the conjugations of all our verbs one sixth part of their entire scheme?

But no obsolescent termination has ever yet been recalled into the popular service.

The last two are obsolescent, or at least not in very common use.

"Brake [for the preterit of Break] seems now obsolescent.

Forms really obsolete belong not to any modern list of irregular verbs; and even such as are archaic and obsolescent, it is sometimes better to omit.

Wells marks this word as, "Obsolescent.

Dr. Crombie says, "Sitten, though formerly in use, is now obsolescent.

Sitten and spitten are preferable [to sat and spit,] though obsolescent.

Had Langland not linked his literary fortunes with an uncouth and obsolescent verse, and had he possessed a finer artistic sense and a higher poetic imagination, his book might have been, like Chaucer's, among the lasting glories of our tongue.

Jehad, or Holy War, is an obsolescent weapon difficult and dangerous for Young Turks to wield: difficult because their own Islamic sincerity is suspect and they are taking the field now as clients of giaur peoples; dangerous because the Ottoman nation itself includes numerous Christian elements, indispensable to its economy.

The vaster vistas which scientific evolutionism has opened, and the rising tide of social democratic ideals, have changed the type of our imagination, and the older monarchical theism is obsolete or obsolescent.

Because if forms of language much more ancient than any that were then current were employed on pillar-stones in the third or fourth century, it follows that this obsolescent language must have survived either in a written or a regularly recited form.

This mixture of obsolescent theology and Epicurean philosophy probably possessed little reality for Vergil himself, and would have conveyed no meaning whatever to the Sicilian shepherds.

And with all this, in his hard rugged style, bristling with obsolescent words and unexpected neologisms, flashed perfect originalities, treasures of expression and superbly nomadic lines amputated of rhyme.

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Very many verbs seem to be anomalous in some of their forms in consequence of deriving these from an obsolete kindred root.

reduplicate, 1st aor., from εἰς, into, and an obsolete ἔγκω, (for ενκω, § 16;) subj., § 41, (dependent end upon an implied verb of wishing or deprecating § 44;) 2d sing.

As a matter of fact, the Act of 1779, long obsolete, has never been repealed, but very few people are aware of its existence.

In the Divinity School Address, Emerson maintained that the idea of 'supernaturalism' is rendered obsolete by a recognition of the reality of things.

Since the abolition of slavery this provision has become obsolete, but until 1860 it was a very important factor in American history.

The president's veto power is a qualified form of that which formerly belonged to the English sovereign but has now, as already observed, become practically obsolete.

First because of the extraordinary smoothness and melody of his verse and the richness of his languagea golden diction that he drew from every sourcenew words, old words, obsolete wordssuch a mixture that the purist Ben Jonson remarked acidly that he wrote no language at all.

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Why not a prize contest to stimulate the interest of the rising generation in this obsolete subject?

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Lowth supplied some valuable criticisms, most of which however respect obsolete phrases; but many of his criticisms are extremely erroneous, and they have had an ill effect, in perverting the true idioms of our language.

The advocates for Johnson and opponents of Webster, who are now so zealously stickling for the k and the u in these cases, ought to know that they are contending for what was obsolete, or obsolescent, when Dr. Johnson was a boy. OBS.

Articles do not relate to pronouns, unless the obsolete phrase the which is to be revived; participles have other constructions than those which adjectives admit; there are exceptions to the rules which tie articles to nouns, and adjectives to nouns or pronouns; and the objective case may not only be governed by a participle, but may be put in apposition with an other objective.

" I liked that and fancied it were old-time urbanity, though often since I have seen it proved that the custom is not obsolete.

But this regulation has become obsolete, and the whole installation and investiture are now performed by the Grand Master.