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so extremely old as to seem to belong to an earlier period; or obsolete

When I first started reading Shakespeare, it seemed archaic.

archaic = so extremely old as to seem to belong to an earlier period

I hope popular forms of psychotherapy will soon be considered archaic.
Their guns—some were rifles, other pistols—looked . . . archaic, rustic.
James Dashner -- The Maze Runner

archaic = so extremely old as to seem to belong to an earlier period; or obsolete

GEORGE: I've got the ice . . .
MARTHA: . . . gotten . . .
GEORGE: Got, Martha. Got is perfectly correct . . . it's just a little . . . archaic, like you.
Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

archaic = so extremely old as to seem to belong to an earlier period

The art historian George Ortiz was once asked by Ernst Langlotz, one of the world's foremost experts on archaic sculpture, whether he wanted to purchase a bronze statuette.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink

archaic = so extremely old as to belong to an earlier period

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Dee Hock
If you've got a fault in the world, Sandy, it is that you are a shade too archaic.
Twain, Mark -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
It trained his ear and gave him a fine appreciation for noble English; withal it introduced into his mind much that was archaic and obsolete.
London, Jack -- Martin Eden
"Really, you are too archaic for words," said an Oddity in an alley-way.
Kipling, Rudyard -- Actions and Reactions
No, Bunny, it's principally in the shape of archaic ornaments, whose value, I admit, is largely extrinsic.
Hornung, E. W. -- Raffles, Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman
It suggested, rather, some archaic headdress of Persia or Babylon.
Chesterton, Gilbert K. -- The Man Who Knew Too Much
And yet, truly, they are already of but archaic interest.
Conrad, Joseph -- The Mirror of the Sea
archaic forms of life
archaic laws
{epochas = archaic Latinized spelling of epochs}
Cooper, James Fenimore -- Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
What a delightfully archaic term!
Terry Pratchett -- Nation
Torture is such an old-fashioned archaic word.
Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
The buildings, particularly the ones for the prison staff, were clean and contemporary; but the housing for the prisoners was archaic and dirty.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
At first Langdon thought he could not read them because Da Vinci wrote his notebooks in an archaic Italian.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
We're not going back to a more archaic form of execution," Judge Haig said.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart

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