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    ARCHAICISM

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The use of an archaic expressionplay

    Synonyms:

    archaicism; archaism

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("archaicism" is a kind of...):

    expression; formulation (the style of expressing yourself)

    Domain member usage:

    small (slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope)

    curtal ((archaic) cut short)

    base; baseborn (illegitimate)

    corroborant (used of a medicine that is strengthening)

    frore (very cold)

    acold (of persons; feeling cold)

    fervent; fervid ((archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowing)

    leal (faithful and true)

    uplifted (exalted emotionally especially with pride)

    sublime (lifted up or set high)

    amort (utterly cast down)

    dowerless (lacking a dowry)

    innocent ((used of things) lacking sense or awareness)

    verbal (prolix)

    proportionable (proportionate)

    commodious; convenient (large and roomy ('convenient' is archaic in this sense))

    verily (in truth; certainly)

    by chance; perchance (through chance)

    brotherly ((archaic as adverb) in a brotherly manner)

    privily (confidentially or in secret)

    away; forth; off (from a particular thing or place or position ('forth' is obsolete))

    hence (from this place)

    empiric; empirical (relying on medical quackery)

    scriptural (written or relating to writing)

    apopemptic (addressed to one who is departing)

    meretricious (like or relating to a prostitute)

    horary (relating to the hours)

    strait (narrow)

    careful (full of cares or anxiety)

    scrivened (copied in handwriting)

    heartless (devoid of courage or enthusiasm)

    backward; feebleminded; half-witted; slow-witted (retarded in intellectual development)

    puissant (powerful)

    meed (a fitting reward)

    simple (any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties)

    caitiff (a cowardly and despicable person)

    octoroon (an offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black)

    quadroon (an offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter black)

    mulatto (an offspring of a black and a white parent)

    the halt ((archaic) lame persons collectively)

    alienism (an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness)

    fardel (a burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle))

    muchness (greatness of quantity or measure or extent)

    sooth (truth or reality)

    complexion ((obsolete) a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that was once believed to determine a person's health and temperament)

    hornpipe; pibgorn; stockhorn (an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone)

    hold (a stronghold)

    gildhall (the meeting place of a medieval guild)

    palfrey (especially a light saddle horse for a woman)

    ambages ((archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action)

    dighted (dressed or adorned (as for battle))

    brainish; hotheaded; impetuous; impulsive; madcap; tearaway (characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation)

    thrown; thrown and twisted (twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread)

    dark-skinned; dusky; swart; swarthy (naturally having skin of a dark color)

    adust (burned brown by the sun)

    abide; bide; stay (dwell)

    compass (bring about; accomplish)

    trust ((chiefly archaic) extend credit to)

    crease; crinkle; crisp; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up; wrinkle (make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaic)

    control (verify by using a duplicate register for comparison)

    menstruum ((archaic) a solvent)

    water (once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles))

    ether; quintessence (the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies)

    earth; fire; air (once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles))

    bosom (the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept)

    Derivation:

    archaistic (imitative of an archaic style or manner)

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