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  2. Archaism - Wikipedia

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    Lexical archaisms are single archaic words or expressions used regularly in an affair (e.g. religion or law) or freely; literary archaism is the survival of archaic language in a traditional literary text such as a nursery rhyme or the deliberate use of a style characteristic of an earlier age—for example, in his 1960 novel The Sot-Weed ...

  3. Category:Archaic words and phrases - Wikipedia

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  4. Category:Archaic English words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    This category pulls together articles that relate to various words on Wikipedia that are associated with archaic English words and phrases. Wiktionary has a category on English archaic terms . Subcategories

  5. Archaic - Wikipedia

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    Archaic may refer to: Archaic Period (several meanings), archaeological term used to refer to a very early period differing by location; Archaic humans, people before homo sapiens; Archaic, a comic-book series created by writer James Abrams and artist Brett Marting; Archaism, an archaic word or style of speech or writing.

  6. Lexical lists - Wikipedia

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    AD-GI 4, Archaic Word List C, "tribute", [7] a misnomer based on identification of gú/gún with tax, a concise archaic Sumerian, or perhaps proto-Euphratic, word list of animals, numbers, foodstuff and agricultural terminology [8]: 183 embedded in a thanksgiving ritual, first encountered in Uruk and later in Ur and Fāra [9] [KAV 46-47, 63-65 ...

  7. List of archaic technological nomenclature - Wikipedia

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    In the history of science, forms of words are often coined to describe newly observed phenomena. Sometimes the words chosen reflect assumptions about the phenomenon which later turn out to be erroneous. In most cases, the original forms of words then become archaic and fall into disuse, with notable exceptions. This list documents such archaisms.

  8. Old Latin - Wikipedia

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    Old Latin, also known as Early, Archaic or Priscan Latin (Classical Latin: prīsca Latīnitās, lit. 'ancient Latinity'), was the Latin language in the period roughly before 75 BC, i.e. before the age of Classical Latin . [ 1 ]

  9. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Disect is an archaic word meaning "to separate by cutting", but has not been in common use since the 17th century. Standard : The Americas are bisected by the Panama canal. Standard : She dissected Smith's dissertation, pointing out scores of errors.