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ARCHAISM

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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 ("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)

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away; forth; off (from a particular thing or place or position ('forth' is obsolete))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

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)

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