All 3 Uses of
archaic
in
Tender is the Night
- McKisco knew what ideas were, and as his mind grew he was able to recognize and sort an increasing number of them—but faced by a man whom he considered "dumb," one in whom he found no ideas he could recognize as such, and yet to whom he could not feel personally superior, he jumped at the conclusion that Barban was the end product of an archaic world, and as such, worthless.†
Chpt 1.7
- He weighed one of the archaic weapons in his hand.†
Chpt 1.10 *
- So it would ever be, he saw, simultaneously with the slow archaic tinkle from the phone box as he rang off.†
Chpt 3.10
Definition:
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(archaic) so extremely old as to seem to belong to an earlier period; or obsolete