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Superannuated

adjective

Too old to be useful. Synonyms: over-the-hill, overage, overaged.

Old; no longer valid or fashionable. Synonyms: out-of-date, outdated. "An obsolete locomotive" , "Outdated equipment" , "Superannuated laws" , "Out-of-date ideas"

Superannuate

verb

(past & past part. superannuated; pres. part. superannuating)

Retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability.

Declare to be obsolete.

Become obsolete.

Retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity.

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"Superannuated" Quotes from Famous Books

... for the expense of the expedition; and the original design was entirely defeated. Had the Manilla ship escaped the vigilance of the English commodore, he might have been, on his return to England, laid aside as a superannuated captain, and died in obscurity, but his great wealth invested him with considerable influence, and ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... of his ancestors, with but one faithful old servant remaining to him of the numerous retinue of the olden times; one poor old dog, half starved, and gray with age, where used to be a pack of thirty hounds; one miserable, superannuated pony in the stable where twenty horses had been wont to stand; and one old cat to beg for ...

— Captain Fracasse • Theophile Gautier

... every other, we are "going ahead" with accelerated velocity, and promising to outstrip the superannuated countries of Europe. It is really astonishing to see the number of tribunals incessantly springing up for the trial of literary offences. Independent of the high courts of Oyer and Terminer, the great quarterly reviews, we have innumerable minor tribunals, monthly and weekly, ...

— Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies • Washington Irving

... and facile music and the independent pieces of the old operas hardly interested him; the wretched trills of Auber and Boieldieu, of Adam and Flotow and the rhetorical commonplaces of Ambroise Thomas and the Bazins disgusted him as did the superannuated affectations and vulgar graces of Italians. That was why he had resolutely broken with musical art, and during the years of his abstention, he pleasurably recalled only certain programs of chamber music when he had ...

— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... be but one opinion—that such an atmosphere was harmful to him. He speaks of Naples himself as being a country of poets, whores, and scoundrels; and Southey does not attempt to mince words, for in vigorous terms he describes England's "alliances to superannuated and abominable governments of the Continent." These are the states that we shed British blood and squandered British money over, and in truth Southey ...

— Drake, Nelson and Napoleon • Walter Runciman

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