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exolet

exolet is the alternative form of exolete.

Meaning of exolete

Adjective

exolete (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) That has gone out of use; disused, obsolete.
    • A Greeke inscription which I could not understand by reason of the antiquity of those exolete letters.1611, Thomas Coryat, Coryat’s Crudities, page 178
  2. (obsolete) That has lost its virtue; effete, insipid.
    • The vulgar Carpobalſame…being…faint, rancid, exolet.1657, Richard Tomlinson (translator), Jean de Renou (author), A Medicinal Diſpenſatory, page 283
  3. (obsolete) (of flowers) Faded.
    • Exolete, faded, or withered, as flowers.1730–6, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (folio edition), “Exolete”

Questions about exolet

What is exolet the alternative form of?
Exolet is the alternative form of exolete.

Words near exolet in the dictionary

  1. exokinase
  2. exokinases
  3. exolabial
  4. exolang
  5. exolangs
  6. exolet
  7. exolete
  8. exolevanase
  9. exolevanases
  10. exolever
  11. exolevers

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