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Pages in category "Archaic words and phrases" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Archaism; A.
Pages in category "Archaic English words and phrases" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
will not (archaic) won’t: will not wonnot: will not (archaic) would’ve: would have wouldn’t: would not wouldn’t’ve: would not have y’ain’t: you are not / you have not / you did not (colloquial) y’all: you all (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’d’ve: you all would have (colloquial/Southern American English) y ...
Abū Salābīkh god-list [SEL 2 3-23 [p 3]] 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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
The occult (from the Latin word occultus "clandestine, hidden, secret") is "knowledge of the hidden". [1] In common usage, occult refers to "knowledge of the paranormal", as opposed to "knowledge of the measurable", [2] usually referred to as science.