inusitate

English

Etymology

Latin inusitatus (“unusual; new; unseen; different”). See use.

Adjective

inusitate (comparative more inusitate, superlative most inusitate)

  1. (archaic) Unusual.
    • 1643, John Bramhall, Serpent Salve:
      a phrase inusitate to English ears
    • 1908, George Saintsbury, Classical and mediaeval criticism:
      It is the objection to archaic, foreign, and otherwise inusitate words […]

Anagrams

Italian

Adjective

inusitate

  1. feminine plural of inusitato

Latin

Adjective

inūsitāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of inūsitātus

References
  • “inusitate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “inusitate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • inusitate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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