usitate

No small part of that high claim to purely literary rank which has been made for him rests, of course, upon his mere style -- that famous and much debated "chase of the single word" which, especially since Mr. Pater took up the discussion of it, has been a "topic" of the most usitate in

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

Amicus noster, homo multi studii atque in bonarum disciplinarum opere frequens, verbum _quiescit_ usitate e littera correpta dixit.

The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord