English > archaism: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| Meaning | The use of an archaic expression. |
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| Synonym | archaicism |
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| Broader | formulation, expression | The style of expressing yourself |
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| Usage | Negro, Negroid | a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) |
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| acold | Of persons |
| adust | Burned brown by the sun |
| air | Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles) |
| alienism | An obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness |
| ambages | (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action |
| amort | utterly cast down |
| apopemptic | addressed to one who is departing |
| away, off, forth | From a particular thing or place or position ('forth' is obsolete) |
| backward, half-witted, slow-witted, feebleminded | retarded in intellectual development |
| base, baseborn | illegitimate |
| bide, abide, stay | Dwell |
| bosom | The chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept |
| brotherly | (archaic as adverb) in a brotherly manner |
| caitiff | A cowardly and despicable person |
| careful | Full of cares or anxiety |
| commodious, convenient | large and roomy ('convenient' is archaic in this sense) |
| compass | bring about |
| 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 |
| control | verify by using a duplicate register / register for comparison |
| corroborant | Used of a medicine that is strengthening |
| curtal | (obsolete) cut short |
| dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy | naturally having skin of a dark color |
| dighted | Dressed or adorned (as for battle) |
| dowerless | lacking a dowry |
| earth | Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles) |
| empiric, empirical | Relying on medical quackery |
| fardel | A burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle) |
| fervent, fervid | Extremely hot |
| fire | Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles) |
| frore | Very cold |
| gildhall | The meeting place of a medieval guild |
| heartless | Devoid of courage or enthusiasm |
| hence | From this place |
| hold | A stronghold |
| horary | relating to the hours |
| hornpipe, pibgorn, stockhorn | An ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind |
| hotheaded, impulsive, impetuous, madcap, tearaway, brainish | Characterized by undue haste / haste and lack of thought or deliberation |
| innocent | (used of things) lacking sense or awareness |
| instancy | the quality of being insistent |
| leal | Faithful and true |
| like fun | used ironically to indicate the opposite of what is stated |
| meed | A fitting reward |
| menstruum | (archaic) a solvent |
| meretricious | like or relating to a prostitute |
| muchness | greatness of quantity or measure or extent |
| mulatto | An offspring of a black and a white parent |
| octoroon | An offspring of a quadroon and a white parent |
| palfrey | especially a light saddle horse for a woman |
| perchance, by chance | Through chance, "To sleep, perchance to dream.." |
| privily | confidentially or in secret |
| proportionable | Proportionate |
| puissant | Powerful |
| quadroon | An offspring of a mulatto and a white parent |
| quintessence, ether | The fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water |
| screw | have sexual intercourse with |
| scriptural | written or relating to writing |
| scrivened | Copied in handwriting / handwriting |
| simple | Any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties |
| small | Slight or limited |
| sooth | truth or reality |
| strait | Narrow |
| sublime | lifted up or set high |
| the halt | (archaic) lame persons collectively |
| thrown, thrown and twisted | Twisted together |
| trust | Extend credit / credit to |
| uplifted | exalted emotionally especially with pride |
| verbal | prolix |
| verily | In truth |
| water | Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles) |
| wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp | make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface |
| Spanish | arcaismo, arcaísmo |
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| Catalan | arcaisme |
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| Adjectives | archaistic | imitative of an archaic style or manner |
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| Verbs | archaize, archaise | give an archaic appearance of character to |
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