单词 | archaic |
释义 | archaicadj. a. Marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; old-fashioned, primitive, antiquated. spec. in Archaeology, designating an early or formative period of artistic style or culture. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > primitive or early earlyOE formerc1374 primordiala1398 primec1429 primer1448 primitivea1475 pristinate1531 prisk1533 pristine1534 primordiate1599 primigenial1602 primitial1602 primigenie1615 primigenious1620 primigene1623 primogenious1625 primogeniala1631 primevea1640 primogenian1650 pristinary1652 primeval1653 primevous1656 protogeneous1660 primigenous1677 primo-primitive1678 antediluvian1705 priscal1831 archaic1833 primigenian1847 Palaeozoic1863 priscan1870 aboriginary1993 the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > marked by the characteristics of earlier period antique1532 archaicala1804 archaic1833 1833 H. Ellis Elgin Marbles I. v. 111 A later specimen of the archaic period of bas-relief. 1870 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 2) i. 1 A social condition ruder, and more archaic, than any which history records. 1879 W. E. Gladstone Gleanings Past Years II. vii. 345 A population..of archaic covenanting puritans. 1902 E. 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. 1928 C. 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. 1961 S. 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [adjective] > living, dead, or archaic forsakena1613 living1657 mort1659 modern1699 middle1830 archaic1832 relict1887 1832 (title) Boucher's Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words. 1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 286 An archaic form of diction. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1832 |
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