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archaic, a.|ɑːˈkeɪɪk|
[ad. Gr. ἀρχαϊκός, old-fashioned, f. ἀρχαῖος ancient: see -ic. Cf. F. archaïque.]
a. Marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; old-fashioned, primitive, antiquated. spec. in Archæol., designating an early or formative period of artistic style or culture.
1846Ellis Elgin Marb. I. 111 A later specimen of the archaic period of bas-relief. 1875Lubbock Orig. Civiliz. i. 2 A social condition ruder and more archaic than any which history records. 1879Gladstone Gleanings II. vii. 345 A population..of archaic covenanting puritans. 1902E. A. T. W. Budge Hist. Egypt II. i. 1 With the ending of the IIIrd Dynasty we close our chapter on the archaic period of Egyptian civilization. 1928C. Dawson Age of Gods xiii. 289 The decline of the Archaic Culture and the invasions of the warrior peoples at the beginning of the second millennium. 1961S. Lloyd Art Anc. Near East ii. 64 The first two Egyptian dynasties are usually referred to as the ‘Archaic period’.
b. esp. of language: Belonging to an earlier period, no longer in common use, though still retained either by individuals, or generally, for special purposes, poetical, liturgical, etc. Thus the pronunciation obleege is archaic in the first case; the pronoun thou in the second.
1832(title) Boucher's Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words. 1876C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. 286 An archaic form of diction. |