archaicism
the use of an archaic expression
• Syn:
archaism
• Derivationally related forms:
archaistic, archaistic (for: archaism), archaize (for: archaism), archaise (for: archaism)
• Members of this Usage Domain:
adust, dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy,
thrown, thrown and twisted, hotheaded, impulsive, impetuous, madcap,
tearaway, brainish, dighted, commodious, convenient, proportionable,
verbal, innocent, dowerless, amort, sublime, uplifted,
leal, acold, frore, corroborant, base, baseborn,
curtal, small, puissant, backward, half-witted, slow-witted,
feebleminded, heartless, scrivened, careful, strait, horary,
meretricious, apopemptic, scriptural, empiric, empirical, hence,
away, off, forth, privily, brotherly, mellowly,
mellow, perchance, by chance, verily, ambages, palfrey,
gildhall, hold, hornpipe, pibgorn, stockhorn, complexion,
sooth, muchness, instancy, alienism, the halt, Negroid,
colored person, colored, mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, Oriental,
oriental person, caitiff, simple, meed, bosom, air,
fire, earth, quintessence, ether, water, menstruum,
screw, bide, abide, stay
• Members of this Topic:
control
• Hypernyms:
formulation, expression
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