Both Uses of
obsolete
in
Moby Dick
- But I omit them as altogether obsolete; and can hardly help suspecting them for mere sounds, full of Leviathanism, but signifying nothing.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- But this custom has now become obsolete; turn we then to the one proper mast-head, that of a whale-ship at sea.†
Chpt 34-36
Definition:
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(obsolete) no longer in general use because it was replaced by something better