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Definition of Discarded
1. Adjective. Thrown away. "Salvaged some thrown-away furniture"
Definition of Discarded
1. Verb. (past of discard) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Discarded
1. discard [v] - See also: discard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discarded
Literary usage of Discarded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Valuation of Public Service Corporations: Legal and Economic Phases of by Robert Harvey Whitten, Whitten, Robert Harvey, 1873-1936 (1912)
"discarded property. CHAPTER X Unused Property 211. discarded property—Wisconsin
Railroad Commission. 212. Inclusion of river intake and filter galleries, ..."
2. Report by North Dakota State Budget Board (1912)
"UNIFORM METHOD discarded. Many progressive states have discarded the doctrine of
the uniformity of taxation and have accepted the theory of a diversified ..."
3. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"discarded VICES. My own remarks were of the same tenor as those of my comrades,
and I know that the feelings that prompted them were heartfelt and sincere. ..."
4. The Lancet (1842)
"Well, Sir, the resident practitioners were discarded, medical clubs were established,
the most sordid modes of treating disease were adopted by the needy ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"... Triumph ' was produced in 1631-2 a contemporary letter-writer recorded that
Jonson was discarded ' by reason of the predominant power of his antagonist, ..."
6. The Puritans: Or, The Church, Court, and Parliament of England, During the by Samuel Hopkins (1861)
"BANCROFT'S THEORY discarded BY THE COUNCIL AND BISHOPS. 1588-9. SOME six or seven
thousand people were assembled in the churchyard of St. Paul's cathedral.1 ..."
7. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"Its earlier parasitism is by sessile haus- toria, which are soon discarded, and
its later parasitism is by haustoria-tipped tendrils, sometimes erroneously ..."
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