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▪ I. archive|ˈɑːkaɪv, -kɪv|
Mostly in pl.
[a. F. archif, archive, ad. late L. archīum, archīvum, a. Gr. ἀρχεῖον magisterial residence, public office, f. ἀρχή government.]
1. A place in which public records or other important historic documents are kept. Now only in pl.
1645Howell Lett. vi. 5 Lubeck, wher the Archifs of their ancient Records is still. 1667E. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. iii. x. (1743) 217 The Tower of London is likewise..the Great Archive where are conserved all the ancient records. 1777Sir W. Jones Poems & Ess. Pref. 13 Preserved in the archives of the Royal Society. 1775R. Lowth Let. Warburton 43 Laid up in the same Archive. 1866Felton Anc. & Mod. Greece II. xi. 209 That authenticated copies..should be deposited in the public archives.
2. A historical record or document so preserved. Now chiefly in pl.
1638Penit. Conf. xii. (1657) 319 Constitutions..found amongst the Archives at Bennet College. 1683Dryden Plutarch 63 He had travell'd over Greece to peruse the archives of every city. 1795Ld. Auckland in Corr. (1862) III. 284 Lord St. Helens was obliged to burn all our Hague archives. 1823Lamb Elia (1860) 15 Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom-explored press. 1863M. Howitt F. Bremer's Greece I. i. 19 These inscriptions constitute a portion of the archives of ancient Athens.
3. transf. or fig. in both prec. senses.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 140 These curious meddlers..make of their memorie a most unpleasant Archive or Register. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) II. iii. xxxv. 268 Those periods of the past, of which they [geologists] were studying the archives. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xi. ii. IV. 38 So expert was he, and a living archive in that business. 1878Seeley Stein III. 421 The Universities, archives of all the errors of the age.
4. attrib. and Comb.
1937Discovery Oct. 323/1 The promotion of archive science. 1959Chambers's Encycl. I. 570/1 Archive keeping is essential for a civilized community.
▪ II. archive, v.|ˈɑːkaɪv|
[f. the n.]
trans. To place or store in an archive; in Computing, to transfer to a store containing infrequently used files, or to a lower level in the hierarchy of memories, esp. from disc to tape.
1934in Webster. 1950Times 3 Mar. 5/7 The Government's clandestine censors are not content merely to open letters, copy the contents, and then reforward them; they either archive or destroy the letter. 1979Nature 29 Nov. 538/3 Before being archived, data will also be examined by an Advisory Committee. 1982Amer. Speech LVII. 163 All..files will be archived at the University of Wisconsin after the project is complete. 1985Computerworld Focus 19 June 22/4 Finished plans would be transmitted to a DNC host computer where they would be archived and managed.
Hence ˈarchiving vbl. n.
1978Nature 23 Nov. 328/1 Most of these data..should be provided by satellites within the next few years but their processing and archiving will require considerable additional effort. 1981[see electronic mailbox s.v. electronic a. 3]. 1982Papers Dict. Soc. N. Amer. 1979 142 The conversion programming which is at the heart of a dictionary archiving project with a single central data format, is expensive and difficult. 1982What's New in Computing Nov. 53/2 An electronic mail package which features..recorded delivery of messages, archiving, delayed purging, [etc.]. 1983Computerworld 15 Aug. 54/3 The Archive Restore System..manages the archiving of CMS files in VM environments. |