desuetudinous

English

Etymology

From desuetude +‎ -in- +‎ -ous.

Adjective

desuetudinous (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to desuetude; of a law or statute, no longer observed, practiced or enforced.
   • 1994, Janet E. Halley, “Bowers v. Hardwick in the Renaissance”, in Jonathan Goldberg, editor, Queering the Renaissance, page 28:

     though a statute banning unmarried partners from co-habiting was widely thought to be desueditudinous (the doctrinal equivalent of "blue"), and thus "merely symbolic", some local district attorneys relied on it quite heavily