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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Archaic \Ar*cha"ic\, a. [Gr. 'archai:ko`s old-fashioned, fr 'archai^os ancient.] Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: archaic adj 1: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws" [syn: {antediluvian}, {antiquated}] 2: little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe" [syn: {primitive}]
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