Word Finder - superannuated

definition

To retire or put out of use due to age.

definition

To show to be obsolete due to age.

definition

To retire due to age.

definition

To become obsolete or antiquated.

definition

To give a pension to, on account of old age or other infirmity; to cause to retire from service on a pension.

definition

Obsolete, antiquated.

synonyms

• archaic
• dated
• out of date
• outdated
• outmoded

definition

Retired or discarded due to age.

synonyms

• decrepit
• long in the tooth
• over the hill

Strafford was recalled to expiate his career on the scaffold; the army was disbanded; and the helm of the state remained in the hands of a land-jobber and of a superannuated Rebel lion soldier.

I think its safe to assume that we'll both be rather superannuated by the time our number is up.

Yet Hofland's defense of the ideology of gender spheres is not so superannuated that it cavils at the role of women as writers.

I was invited to his evening assemblies which were, as I have stated before, frequented by superannuated women and witty men.

Yet Hofland 's defense of the ideology of gender spheres is not so superannuated that it cavils at the role of women as writers.

Of course, generally speaking, less advance was made than in many previous decades, owing to the interregnum caused by the World War, when all British, French, German, and Austrian work was held up, and only the Americans and to a lesser degree the so-called " Egyptian " Service of Antiquities (manned by French and English) did any digging at all; while in all the European countries the energies of all the archaeologists who were not superannuated were transferred to the field of war, and there was no time left to write little papers, still less big books.

All that is certainly known about the antiquity of the sieu is that they were well established in the 3rd century B.C. Their initial point at the autumnal equinox marked by Kio (Spica Virginis) suits a still later date; and there is no valid evidence that the modern series resulted from the rectification of an older superannuated arrangement, analogous to the Krittika sequence of nakshatras.

Thenceforward public opinion, which was looking for something quite different from the superannuated formula of 1614, abandoned the panements, which in, their turn disappeared from view; for the struggle beginning between the privileged classes and the government, now at bay, hadgiven the public, through the states-general, that means of expression which they had always lacked.

Thus in America progress is being rapidly made towards the realization of the idea that war can be superannuated by elimination of its causes and the development of positive methods for the preservation of peace (see PAN- ' 'American Conferences).