Sentence examples for obsolete terms from inspiring English sources
Common names often incorporate obsolete terms in the naming of the alkyl group; for example, amyl is frequently used instead of pentyl for a five-carbon chain.
The designations Tertiary and Quaternary, however, are relics of early attempts in the late 18th century at formulating a stratigraphic classification that included the now wholly obsolete terms Primary and Secondary.
The Guardian's view is that actress comes into the same category as authoress, comedienne, manageress, "lady doctor", "male nurse" and similar obsolete terms that date from a time when professions were largely the preserve of one sex (usually men).
Obsolete terms could be replaced and current drug regimens inserted.
The discussion is presented in somewhat obsolete terms of the "root of the tree of life".
update such obsolete terms properly in already existing data files or databases, because this cannot be done automatically.
(Even the obsolete term "New World" is newer).
But the O.E.D. says the obsolete term means "suppression of truth or fact for the purpose of obtaining something; fraudulent misrepresentation".
The title "Soldier's Heart" refers to an obsolete term ascribing actual cardiac disorder to what was later known as shell shock, then battle fatigue and then post-traumatic stress disorder.
But what's becoming clearest in this fight isn't anything about Hagel, but the derangement of the Republican Party, to use what may soon be an obsolete term for a movement in a state of sour disorder.
