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The state of being anxious; anxiety. [R.]

Accustomedness; habit; habitual use. Assuetude of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt. Bacon.

Custom, habit; usage. [R.] To observe this consuetude or law. Barnes .

The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion. The desuetude abrogated the law, which, before, custom had established. Jer. Taylor.

Dullness; stupidity. Harvey.

Disturbed state; uneasiness either of body or mind; restlessness; disquietude. Sir H. Wotton.

d; absence of use or habit. Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. Landor.

Tameness; gentleness; mildness. [Archaic]

Rest; repose; quiet; tranquillity. Shelley.

Uneasiness; inquietude.

Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.

; to shorten, narrow, or lesen; as, to contract one's shpere of action. In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties. Dr. H. More.

Want of comfort; uneasiness, mental or physical; disturbance of peace; inquietude; pain; distress; sorrow. "An age of spiritual discomfort." M. Arnold. Strive against all the discomforts of thy sufferings. Bp. Hall.

Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet. Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. Shak. The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent. Hallam

The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude. Bacon.

Producing inquietude or uneasiness. [R.] Barrow.

ant of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.

Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse. The disuse of the tongue in the only . . . remedy. Addison. Church discipline then fell into disuse. Southey.

Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness; quietude. W. Montagu.