Discurrent

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not current or free to circulate; not in use. obsolete

    "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, in such wise as not to suffer them to be commonly salable, but only to such or in such places as the superiours should thinke meet."

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"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, in such wise as not to suffer them to be commonly salable, but only to such or in such places as the superiours should thinke meet."

Etymology

From dis- + current.

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