Meanings of archaic form in English

Orman recognized the formula -though it was an oddly archaic form.

The original telegraph of Morse, exhibited in 1837, has become an archaic form.

His archaic form of speech was thick and accented.

But the language it spoke was Fae-anarchaic form of the Old Language, almost indecipherable.

It derives from an archaic form of the word

He said something very fast, in an archaic form of Thari which I could not follow.

His is a very archaic form of playing.

So far as the latter is true, it indicates a relatively archaic form of the devotional habit.

The same institution in essential features and in character, it presents the organization in its archaic form and with its archaic functions.

As an institution it was still in its archaic form, but it possessed the essential elements of the Grecian and the Roman.

Speaking in an archaic form of Greek, the gargoyle invited him to a meeting on the roof of the Cathedral of Notre Dame.

Dora's voice fell to a whisper and she slipped into an archaic form of the French language that would be incomprehensible to any modern eavesdropper.

These are poetic and archaic forms that should be avoided in ordinary prose.

We have now examined the most archaic forms of the survival of totemism in Britain.

That Wimmer postdates the introduction of the runic alphabet seems clear from the archaic forms and method of writing.

The materials, again, will often exist by that time in dead or half-obsolete languages, or at least in languages full of archaic forms.