desuetudinous

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to desuetude; of a law or statute, no longer observed, practiced or enforced. not-comparable
    — though a statute banning unmarried partners from co-habiting was widely thought to be desueditudinous (the doctrinal equivalent of "blue"), and thus "merely symbolic", some local district attorneys relied on it quite heavily

词源

From Latin dēsuētūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of dēsuētūdō, from dēsuēscō + -tūdō, from dē- + suēscō. By surface analysis, desue(te) + -tude + -ous.
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