The corpus record — Latin

obsolefacio

to wear out, spoil, injure, sully, degrade, lower, make common

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Where it lives

De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

obsŏlĕfăcĭo — Lewis & Short

obsŏlĕfăcĭo, fēci, factum, 3,

I v. a.; in pass.: obsŏlĕfīo, factus, fieri obsoleofacio, to wear out, spoil, injure, sully, degrade, lower, make common (mostly postAug.): rivi non opere, nec fistulā, nec ullo coacto itinere obsolefacti, sed sponte currentes, Sen. Ep. 90, 43: auctoritas obsolefacta, id. ib. 29, 3: toga, Val. Max. 3, 5, 1: admonebat, ne paterentur nomen suum commissionibus obsolefieri, Suet. Aug. 89: obsolefiebant dignitatis insignia, Cic. Phil. 2, 41, 105; B. and K. dub. (al. obsolescebant; al. obsolebant).

In the wild

obsolefacti Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 14.90.43
obsolefacta Tertullian, De Virginibus Velandis 11
obsolefacta Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 3.29.3
obsolefactam Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3.5.1.p2

Where it came from

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