disuse

käytöstä pois jättäminen The state of not being used; neglect.

The garden fell into disuse and became overgrown.

Whether in process of time Shakspeare grew weary of the bondage of rhyme, or whether he became convinced of its impropriety in a dramatick dialogue, his neglect of rhyming (for he never wholly disused it) seems to have been gradual.

The author does not fail to recommend the practice, adopted, it is said, by many thousands in the kingdom, of disusing the West India produce.

He was disused to hard work.

Whether a rotten state, and hope of gaine, / Or to disuse mee from the queasie paine / Of being belov'd, and loving, or the thirst / Of honour, or faire death, out pusht mee first, / I lose my end: for here as well as I / A desperate may live, and a coward die.