To disuse the term Atheist, since the public understand by that word one who is without God and also without morality, and who wishes to be without both.
Disuse during lifetime would also cause some amount of degeneracy; and I am not sure that Mr. Spencer is right in entirely excluding economy of nutrition from the problem.
This slight reduction may be much more than accounted for by such causes as disuse in the individual, human preference setting back the teeth, and partial transference of the much more marked diminution seen in female jaws.
The most confident assertions of the effects of use and disuse in modifying the heritable type, appear to rest on this indefeasible basis.
The thickening of the wing-bones has actually more than kept pace with any increase of weight in the skeleton, in spite of the effect of individual disuse and of the alleged cumulative effect of ancestral disusefor hundreds of generations.
When the loss exceeds the growth, use will diminish or deteriorate the part used, while disuse would enlarge or perfect it.
But use-inheritance would cumulatively alter this individual adaptability, and would tend to fix the size of organs by the average amount of ancestral use or disuse rather than by the actual requirements of the individual.
It merely excludes the effect of disuse during lifetime, and thus presents a fallacious appearance of being decisive.
Is it possible to believe, with Mr. Spencer, that the effects of use and disuse on the parts of the personal structure are simultaneously registered in corresponding impressions on the seminal germs?
Part of this reduction must be due to the direct effect of disuse during the lifetime of the individual.
Why are not the effects of thisdisuse inherited by the labourer's infant?
Another peculiarity in these Christian inscriptions is the disuse of the three names usually assumed by the Romans.
It was invented at least as early as the ninth dynasty (4,240 years ago), and fell into disuse when the demotic had been introduced.
It then fell into disuse until 1850, but for the half-century since it has served its present purpose as a penal institution and has been greatly added to from time to time.
So much has it fallen into disuse that the grass and heather have almost obliterated it in places, and it appeared that little had been done to maintain it for years.
The increasing use of fire arms also tended to hasten the disuse of armour, for it became difficult to make plates that would be sufficiently strong to oppose a bullet, unless the armour were made of great thickness.
They were great preachers, and this was particularly striking, because preaching had fallen into disuse among the monastic orders.
The hoop petticoat, though fallen into disuse generally, was retained in the Court dress.
I pleaded their late hour of dinner, our having no carriage, and my disuse to the night air at this time of the year; but M.
The name Biafra--as indicating the country--fell into disuse in the later part of the 19th century.
But with the rise of the professional soldier and the corresponding disuse of arms by the nobles and gentry, the Gentlemen-at-Arms (a title which came into use in James II.
They are in an atrophied state, and this is often in part attributable to disuse of the limbs.
It often follows in old people upon long disuse and confinement of a limb to one position, as during the cure of fractures.
The question should turn upon whether the disuse of an organ has arisen:- 1.
The funerary cult of Khufu and Khafr[=e] was practised under the twenty-sixth dynasty, when so much that had fallen into disuse and been forgotten was revived.
It had been a universal drink in England, but was somewhat in disuse when this country was settled.
Nicholls was so small that some of the more observing and progressive physicians were led by it to begin similar experiments in the disuse of alcohol in other hospitals.
The lessened mortality consequent upon its entire disuse demonstrated by the London Temperance Hospital.
In the chapter upon "The Effects of Alcohol upon the Human Body" are cited some of the reasons assigned by scientific investigators for their disuse of alcohol as a remedy in disease.
The visiting staff is not compelled to pledge disuse of alcohol, but is required to report if it is used.
This shows a decided advance in the disuse of alcohol, when so very little is used in a great hospital, with so large a number of patients.
Progress in treatment of disease has gone hand in hand with disuse of alcohol.
The disuse implied no doctrinal change; the main motive was that the stiff vestment, high in the neck, was incompatible with a full-bottomed wig.
The gradual disuse of open grates for roasting has led to a practice of first baking and then browning before the fire.
The effects of the original injury will pass off in a few days, but the effects of the disuse of the limb may remain for months or even years because of the disturbance of circulation and of nerve impulse.
We may feel assured that the inherited effects of the long-continued use or disuse of parts will have done much in the same direction with natural selection.
Such structures cannot be accounted for by any form of selection, or by the inherited effects of the use and disuse of parts.
The author there discusses monstrosities in relation to rudimentary organs, and comes to the conclusion that disuse is of more importance, giving as a reason his doubt "whether species under nature ever undergo abrupt changes.
There is reason to believe that when long exercise has given to certain muscles great development, or disuse has lessened them, that such development is also inherited.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disuse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
