obsolescent

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

OBSOLES'CENT, adjective [Latin obsolesco, to go out of use.] Going out of use; passing into desuetude. All the words compounded of here and a preposition, except hereafter, are obsolete or absolescent.
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