Outdated language rarely used.
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Examples for "archaic"
Examples for "archaic"
1Victims groups have slammed the move, saying name suppression laws are archaic.
2I examined him carefully; the archaic medical treatment had been surprisingly effective.
3Strangely enough, having magically learned archaic Portuguese last summer was really helping.
4Do you not see your children suffering under our archaic education policies?
5But I'm getting my message to you by a rather archaic method.
1Who exhumed you, patron saint of archaism, from the charnel-house of centuries?
2The very faint archaism of the style may have alienated them.
3Had I come upon a whole buried world of unholy archaism?
4But all these things by themselves might be merely archaism.
5Thirteen years of study created nothing but a cloying sense of being smothered by archaism.
1Here are long quotations, and not an obsolete term or unfamiliar metre among them.
2They looked upon their clergy as preachers merely-thecure of souls was an obsolete term.
3The multitude of obsolete terms, however, in which it abounds, renders it now, as a whole, illegible.
423 "Sweeting," an obsolete term for a sweet apple.-Ed.
5'Put on thy harness,' an obsolete term for armour, weapons, and habiliments of war; the spiritual warfare, 'put on the whole armour of God.
1Spinster is just an archaic term for 'career-minded'.
2Their locomotives (that seems like an archaic term) uses auxiliary power for idling times so that the diesel engine can be shut down.
3What will happen with the archaic terms of the past?
4Rather nicely drafted, although peppered with archaic terms.
5Most of these are just variants and currently archaic terms, but some appear to be actual errors.
1Spell-checkers have problems with proper names, foreign words, archaic usages, and dialects.
2This is particularly so in some old books where archaic usages, now obsolete, may look downright wrong to modern eyes.
Translations for archaic usage