archaism

Noun
  1. The use of an archaic expression (synset 107087487)
    domain member usage:
    • ambages - (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action
    • palfrey - especially a light saddle horse for a woman
    • gildhall - the meeting place of a medieval guild
    • hold - a stronghold
    • hornpipe, pibgorn, stockhorn - an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone
    • 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
    • sooth - truth or reality
    • muchness - greatness of quantity or measure or extent
    • fardel - a burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle)
    • alienism - an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness
    • the halt - (archaic) lame persons collectively
    • mulatto - an offspring of a black and a white parent
    • quadroon - an offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter black
    • octoroon - an offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black
    • caitiff - a cowardly and despicable person
    • simple - any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
    • meed - a fitting reward
    • bosom - the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept
    • air - once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
    • fire - once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
    • earth - once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
    • ether, quintessence - the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
    • water - once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
    • menstruum - (archaic) a solvent
    • control - verify by using a duplicate register for comparison
    • crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle - make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic
    • trust - (chiefly archaic) extend credit to
    • compass - bring about; accomplish
    • abide, bide, stay - dwell
    • adust - burned brown by the sun
    • dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy - naturally having skin of a dark color
    • thrown, thrown and twisted - twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread
    • brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway - characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
    • dighted - dressed or adorned (as for battle)
    • commodious, convenient - large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense)
    • proportionable - proportionate
    • verbal - prolix
    • innocent - (used of things) lacking sense or awareness
    • dowerless - lacking a dowry
    • amort - utterly cast down
    • sublime - lifted up or set high
    • uplifted - exalted emotionally especially with pride
    • leal - faithful and true
    • fervent, fervid - (archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowing
    • acold - of persons; feeling cold
    • frore - very cold
    • corroborant - used of a medicine that is strengthening
    • base, baseborn - illegitimate
    • curtal - (archaic) cut short
    • small - slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
    • puissant - powerful
    • backward, feebleminded, half-witted, slow-witted - retarded in intellectual development
    • heartless - devoid of courage or enthusiasm
    • scrivened - copied in handwriting
    • careful - full of cares or anxiety
    • strait - narrow
    • horary - relating to the hours
    • meretricious - like or relating to a prostitute
    • apopemptic - addressed to one who is departing
    • scriptural - written or relating to writing
    • empiric, empirical - relying on medical quackery
    • hence - from this place
    • away, forth, off - from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)
    • privily - confidentially or in secret
    • brotherly - (archaic as adverb) in a brotherly manner
    • by chance, perchance - through chance
    • verily - in truth; certainly
    is a type of: expression, formulation - the style of expressing yourself
    same as: archaicism

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