"archaism" | Definition and Related Words

archaism

Noun

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- 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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