adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
heritage
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The memory of the parricide was both important enough, and repeated often enough, to enter the archaic heritage .
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The repressed archaic heritage is unconscious.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an archaic sound system
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The English used in Chaucer's plays is an archaic form of the language.
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The laws that decide who owns items discovered on an archeological exploration are ridiculously archaic .
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The text was full of archaic spellings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fierce solidarity was forged of a kind that has become archaic in the west.
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Euthydikos's kore is classical in spirit but stands formally within the archaic series.
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It demands complicated puns, archaic semantic associations, and other comic turns of phrase.
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On the other, is the rural enclave with archaic traditional technological knowledge which is fast decaying.
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Outdated voting mechanisms, a decentralised, idiosyncratic procedure, and the archaic electoral college have received comment.
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Representation schemes once fair and equitable become archaic and outdated.
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This masterpiece gives us the classical moment of the archaic style.
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We must recover that dark age if we wish to understand our archaic fears and to rationalize them.