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Look up: archaic

  1. Archaic
    An early period of Greek art, roughly 600BCE to 480BCE.
    Found on http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum/glo

  2. Archaic
    the Eastern Archaic tradition is an archaeological time period from about 6000 B.C. to 800 B.C. generally associated with the appearance of ground-stone and copper tools
    Found on http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropoli

  3. Archaic
    a period of ancient Greek history from approximately 750 to 500 BCE.
    Found on http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/glossary/glo

  4. archaic
    [adj] - little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. Archaic
    (Archaic (archaism)) If a word is described as archaic, it suggests its use is now old-fashioned. Many words in poems are still used that seem archaic, and many formal words may seem to be so, especially in a religious or legal register. Such words may not be really archaic - it may simply be that you are unaware of these particular registers. Take...
    Found on http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/grammar/main

  6. Archaic
    A work that dates from an early stage in the development of an artistic style, or a work which conveys, consciously or unconsciously, the characteristics of an earlier style.
    Found on http://www.virtualani.org/glossary/index

  7. Archaic
    Ar·cha'ic adjective [ Greek 'archai:ko`s old-fashioned, from 'archai^os ancient.] Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/115

  8. archaic
    Ancient; old; in jungian psychology, denoting the ancestral past of mental processes. ... Origin: G. Archaikos, ancient ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  9. archaic
    adjective 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`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. Archaic
    `Archaic` may refer to a period of time preceding a `classical period`: *List of archaeological periods **Archaic period in Greece **Archaic period in the Americas **Early Dynastic Period of Egypt *Archaic Homo sapiens, people who lived about 300,000 to 30,000 B.P. (this is far earlier than the archaeological definition) *Archaism, the use of a form of speech or writing that is no longer current *List of archaic musical instruments *Archaic Lat...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic

  11. Archaic
    • (a.) Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  12. archaic
    archaic 1. Marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion. 2. In a linguistic form, commonly used in an earlier time but rare in present-day usage except to suggest the older time, as in religious rituals or historical novels. Examples: thou; wast; methinks; forsooth. 3. Forming the earliest stage; p...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  13. Archaic
    A style which is primitive and incomplete in comparison with a posterior style which is considered perfect and complete. -- L.V.
    Found on http://www.ditext.com/runes/a.html


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