desuetudine

Updated: May 12, 2025

This is a certain truth I tell thee, friend, and doubt not of it; for myself have seen the sad experiment thereof in many, who cannot now do what they would, because before they did not what they might have done: Ex desuetudine amittuntur privilegia.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3