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ARCHAISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The use of an archaic expression
Synonyms:
archaicism; archaism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("archaism" 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)
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away; forth; off (from a particular thing or place or position ('forth' is obsolete))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)
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:
archaise (give an archaic appearance of character to)
archaistic (imitative of an archaic style or manner)
archaize (give an archaic appearance of character to)
Domain member usage:
instancy (the quality of being insistent)
like fun (used ironically to indicate the opposite of what is stated)
Negro; Negroid (a person with African ancestry,)
screw (have sexual intercourse with)
