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archaic
The temptation is to think of the actuality as an archaic form, but it it's not.
From the theatlantic.com
But they are still notably this entirely archaic form of passing on information.
From the forbes.com
Cursive handwriting is archaic and quite frankly useless in the Information Age.
From the economist.com
Are you going to accuse us of using an archaic and arbitrary measurement system?
From the economist.com
Octante had been used in Switzerland in the past, but is now considered archaic.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Well, some languages are more archaic than others relative to a common ancestor.
From the economist.com
It was also criticised for using archaic words, not in keeping with Romanticism.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Both the Welsh and the Irish use archaic words for Briton to describe the Picts.
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Even in Modern Javanese archaic sentences using VSO structure can still be made.
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- Antediluvian: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"
- Little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
- (archaicism) archaism: the use of an archaic expression
- Archaic is an American comic book series created by writer James Abrams and artist Brett Marting. The series is published through Fenickx Productions LLC and saw its debut at the 2005 Comic-Con International in San Diego. ...
- Refers to things very, very old and outdated: The Oxford English Dictionary contains many words that are archaic.
- A period of ancient Greek history from approximately 750 to 500 BCE.
- In American archeology, a cultural stage following the earliest known human occupation in the New World (about 5,500 B.C. to A.D. 100). This stage was characterized by a generalized hunting and gathering lifestyle and seasonal movement to take advantage of a variety of resources.
- In archaeology, this term is often used to designate an early period in a culture's history. In Greece it designates the chronological period that preceeded the classical period. ...
- Time tested and proven Usage: Animal research is archaic/time tested and proven.
