defunct

• [T]he engineer must solve the mysteries of boiler accidents by studying defunct structures of many different types. - 1880 January 1, The Locomotive, volume 1, number 1, Hartford, Conn.: The Hartford Steam Boiler...

Synonyms: antiquated disused outdated anachronistic antediluvial antediluvian antique archaic backward backwards behind the times cobwebbed cobwebby dated defunct desuete discontinued dootsie elderly extinct expired fossilized Havishamesque hoary

1. (business) No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again; out of business.

   Synonyms: antiquated disused outdated anachronistic antediluvial antediluvian antique archaic backward backwards behind the times cobwebbed cobwebby dated defunct desuete discontinued dootsie elderly extinct expired fossilized Havishamesque hoary

• When a language dies members of the culture of which that language was once a part may attempt to hold on to their linguistic heritage, if not by the use of the defunct language itself, at least by the preservation of...

• The organs, though defunct and dead before, / Break up their drowsy grave and newly move - 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, &...
• Morgante at a venture shot an arrow, / Which pierced a pig precisely in the ear, / And passed unto the other side quite through; / So that the boar, defunct, lay tripped up near. - 1820 February (date written; published...

• A small tablet is fixt near the Altar, upon wᶜʰ the friends of yᵉ defunct lay their offerings in mony according to their own ability and the quality of the person deceased. - 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme...
• […] he saw Robert Johnston, pannel, come out of the cott-house with the fork in his hand, and pass by Alexander Fall and the deponent; heard the pannell say, he had sticked the dog, and he would stick the whelps too;...