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Synonyms for archaic

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so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

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little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

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Wurmser (2003) argues that the shame-based, guilt-ridden and pain-saturated aspects of self become the precursors for an archaically destructive superego.
As opposed to the heterosexual reproductive model, participating in queer genealogies is consensual and self-directed-in other words, we can pick and choose our queer ancestors and families according to our desires rather than a procreative obligation-making queers potentially less beholden to the imperative that theorist Lee Edelman has called "reproductive futurism." (22) Today, queer cultural transmission tends to happen primarily virtually, but Bronson and Hobbs's practice is almost archaically about the experience of "being there." As they state in their vow, "we resolve to be present in our bodies, present to ourselves, present to each other, and present to queer spirit.
What Hammond calls "long-tailed words," such as "administration" and "organisation," give way to more archaically resonant English monosyllabic words, such as "mote," "carle," and "sele." (25) Of course, language as an ideological means of delimiting thought and imagination is taken up famously in Nineteen Eighty-Four where philologist Syme is involved as part of the State in developing Newspeak, a language stripped of words relating to subversion, rebellion, and freedom.
Stewart's exegesis builds on Benjamin's theories, especially when she asserts that the mimetic faculty is "profoundly and archaically related to physical gesture, sound, and body" (90).
Beneath the doomed arguments, this tangle of metal, with enigmatic film clips flickering in eccentric housings, scratched fresco reliefs, a cube shaped globe, and other curiosities, tracks desires seeking fulfillment, desires as inchoate as the calls of birds, which often appear in the hundreds of archaically stained drawings and watercolors that flutter around this installation in its conception.
The promotion of new books is now almost completely under the control of chain stores, like the now-defunct and archaically named Borders.
Archaically, there are still 92 hereditary peers, in place only because their ancestors proved rather adept at pulling the wool over Joe Soap''s eyes.
The 'commons' has undergone a remarkable transformation in the last fifteen years, from a word referring rather archaically to a grassy square in the centre of New England towns to one variously used by real estate developers, 'free software' programmers, ecological activists and peasant revolutionaries to describe very different, indeed conflicting, purposes and realities.
In that essay he declared his interest on the word's meaning of "Otherworld beyond the five senses," and usually spelled it archaically as Faerie, Faery or Fayery to mark the difference (On Fairy-Stories [OFS] 85)--just like he preferred the spelling Dwarves rather than Dwarfs.
The kind of man who leaves those cryptic names and archaically short telephone numbers hidden on walls.
I figured it was the perfect place, being located in the archaically spelled Shoppes at Blackstone Valley, which house three different cell phone stores.
A person's subjectivity is powerful not merely because it is striving for expression but also because it may be expressed archaically. Archaic mental functioning knows no firm boundary between mind and body, and so archaic mind is incarnate in the body.
It is an aspect of her benevolence when Verduin concedes "that Updike's women do indeed evoke gender patterns archaically entrenched in Western culture--primarily ...
Leaving such archaically secretive, individualistic initiatives behind, in the new historical context the working class ought to take up forms of overt, unarmed subversion on a mass scale.
(I, 17; 167) Both Ormsby and Grossman translate Sancho's curse archaically, witness Ormsby's "Woe is me and all my kindred!" (114) and Grossman's "Curse me and all my kin!" (12.0) While they are both literally accurate, they fail to connect with the modern reader in the simple manner of Raffel's "damn me and all my ancestors!" (94) In addition, Grossman really misses the mark with her literal translation of Sancho's diarrhea: "At this point the concoction took effect, and the poor squire began to erupt from both channels" (120).