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  • GEORGE: I've got the ice . . . MARTHA: . . . gotten . . . GEORGE: Got, Martha. Got is perfectly correct . . . it's just a little . . . archaic, like you.  (source)
    archaic = so extremely old as to seem to belong to an earlier period
  • As you ventured deeper into the museum, the games grew older and more archaic.†  (source)
  • An egret lifted out of the reeds near the lake's edge, white and archaic.†  (source)
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  • Alas, burthen, thine, cometh, aweary — the archaic language of unrequited love.†  (source)
  • Their society was archaically and delightfully Prussian, militaristic to a fault, arrogant in their economic pretensions, xenophobic to the point of happily enlisting to wipe out the "Ouster Menace."†  (source)
  • Their guns—some were rifles, other pistols—looked ....archaic, rustic.†  (source)
  • I should know better than to use such an archaic, inaccurate term.†  (source)
  • Though the whole thing should be archaic and wrong, it worked.†  (source)
  • On Luna, we consider monogamy to be nothing more than archaic sentimentality.†  (source)
  • At first Langdon thought he could not read them because Da Vinci wrote his notebooks in an archaic Italian.†  (source)
  • Only the summer before, he had forgotten how to speak English and had reverted to his native archaic French.†  (source)
  • Even the archaic form of communication known as e-mail is strangely unreliable.†  (source)
  • Desktops encourage the use of paper, which is archaic and reflects inadequate team spirit.†  (source)
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