Both Uses
archaic
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Childhood's End
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- But here they had to rely on such archaic devices as paper and pencil-and even, incredible to relate, shorthand.†
Chpt 14 *
- Jean looked up from her knitting-an archaic occupation which had recently been revived with much success.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(archaic) so extremely old as to seem to belong to an earlier period; or obsolete
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)