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discurrent

discurrent adjective: not current or free to circulate; not in use.

Adjective

discurrent (comparative more discurrent, superlative most discurrent)

  1. (obsolete) Not current or free to circulate; not in use.
    • Which made me entertein this suspicious conjecture, that it might be their care that no part of the Protestant positions and allegations should be knowne they were so exact, as to make discurrent in some sort even those very books which were constreined to recite them, that they might refute them...1605, Sir Edwin Sandys, Europae Speculum [A Relation of the State of Religion in Europe], in Mary Ellen Henley, Sir Edwin Sandy's Europae Speculum: a Critical Edition (2001)

Forms of discurrent

comparativemore discurrent
superlativemost discurrent

Origin of discurrent

From dis- + current.

Questions about discurrent

What does discurrent mean?
Discurrent means not current or free to circulate; not in use.
What part of speech is discurrent?
Discurrent is an adjective.

Words near discurrent in the dictionary

  1. discumbers
  2. discure
  3. discured
  4. discures
  5. discuring
  6. discurrent
  7. discursion
  8. discursions
  9. discursist
  10. discursists
  11. discursive

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