Bible Encyclopedia: Disuse

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Capacity Extirpated by Disuse
... LV CAPACITY EXTIRPATED BY DISUSE. ... The gift is lost by the lack of exercise, or as
Horace Bushnell stated the principle, the "capacity is extirpated by disuse.". ...
/.../peabody/mornings in the college chapel/lv capacity extirpated by disuse.htm

Death by Disuse
... CHAPTER XIII Death by Disuse. "There is a strong ... within them? Was the soul
God gave them dead""sentenced to death by disuse"? Dead they ...
/.../wilson-carmichael/things as they are/chapter xiii death by disuse.htm

Synopsis. --Account to be Made of the Law of Atrophy through ...
... VII SYNOPSIS."Account to be made of the law of atrophy through disuse."
The virgin birth and the corporeal resurrection of Jesus. ...
/.../whiton/miracles and supernatural religion/vii synopsis account to be made.htm

Nouns, 1-14
... GRAMMAR OF SEPTUAGINT GREEK. ACCIDENCE NOUNS, 1-14. 1. Disuse of the Dual. The
Greek of the LXX has two numbrs, the singular and the plural. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/conybeare/a grammar of septuagint greek/nouns 14-jan.htm

Of the Mortification of Our Natural Inclination to Liberty or ...
... 6. We may reasonably impute to the disuse of this obligation the great decay of
religious discipline and perfection in the world; because now, generally ...
/.../chapter xiv of the mortification.htm

What Good Does it do Me that He Declares on his Oath that it was ...
... "I had grown dull in my Latinity through the disuse of nearly 30 years." c3. ... "I had
grown dull in my Latinity through the disuse of nearly 30 years." c3. ...
/.../2 what good does it.htm

An Address to the Man who is Down
... How has man evolved past the animal and the savage, and how has so much
that is in them passed away from him? By mere disuse. And ...
/.../stones rolled away and other addresses to young men/ii an address to the.htm

Traders for the Master
... We do not need to wait for eternity to see that true possession, which is use,
increases powers, and that disuse, which is equivalent to not possessing, robs ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/traders for the master.htm

Mornings in the College Chapel
... LIII THE AVERAGE MAN. LIV THE OVERCOMING OF INSIGNIFICANCE. LV CAPACITY EXTIRPATED
BY DISUSE. LVI THE PARABLE OF THE VACUUM. LVII CHRISTIANITY AND BUSINESS. ...
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Miracles and Supernatural Religion
... VII SYNOPSIS.--Account to be made of the law of atrophy through
disuse.--The virgin birth and the corporeal resurrection of Jesus. ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.

2. (v. t.) To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil.

3. (n.) Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse.

Thesaurus

Disuse (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as,
the limbs lose their strength by disuse. ...Disuse (1 Occurrence). ...
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Ditch (9 Occurrences)

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Oracle (57 Occurrences)
... seems to indicate that at an early period oracular utterances were sought from Yahweh
by the Israelites, but the practice certainly fell into disuse at the ...
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Jew (34 Occurrences)
... Originally this people were called Hebrews (Genesis 39:14; 40:15; Exodus 2:7;
3:18; 5:3; 1 Samuel 4:6, 9, etc.), but after the Exile this name fell into disuse...
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Intermission (2 Occurrences)
... ten minutes. 2. (n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of
being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance. 3. (n ...
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Friend (139 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an
ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. ...
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Revive (31 Occurrences)
... after a suspension. 6. (vi) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or
disuse; as, to revive letters or learning. 7. (vi) To renew ...
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Disunion (1 Occurrence)

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Disannul (3 Occurrences)
... is expressed by akuroo, "to invalidate," "disannul," "make of no effect." Atheteo
is employed to express also the disannulling through age and disuse (Hebrews 7 ...
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Mysia (2 Occurrences)
... When Mysia became a part of the Roman province of Asia in 190 BC, its old name fell
into disuse, and it was then generally known as the Hellespontus. ...
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Bible Concordance

Disuse (1 Occurrence)

Esther 9:28 and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memory of them perish from their seed.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Disuse

Related Terms

Ditch (9 Occurrences)

Oracle (57 Occurrences)

Jew (34 Occurrences)

Intermission (2 Occurrences)

Friend (139 Occurrences)

Revive (31 Occurrences)

Disunion (1 Occurrence)

Disannul (3 Occurrences)

Mysia (2 Occurrences)