ARCHAIC


Meaning of ARCHAIC in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

heritage

The memory of the parricide was both important enough, and repeated often enough, to enter the archaic heritage .

The repressed archaic heritage is unconscious.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an archaic sound system

The English used in Chaucer's plays is an archaic form of the language.

The laws that decide who owns items discovered on an archeological exploration are ridiculously archaic .

The text was full of archaic spellings.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A fierce solidarity was forged of a kind that has become archaic in the west.

Euthydikos's kore is classical in spirit but stands formally within the archaic series.

It demands complicated puns, archaic semantic associations, and other comic turns of phrase.

On the other, is the rural enclave with archaic traditional technological knowledge which is fast decaying.

Outdated voting mechanisms, a decentralised, idiosyncratic procedure, and the archaic electoral college have received comment.

Representation schemes once fair and equitable become archaic and outdated.

This masterpiece gives us the classical moment of the archaic style.

We must recover that dark age if we wish to understand our archaic fears and to rationalize them.

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