1.marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated:archaic ideas. 2.(of a linguistic form) commonly used in an earlier time but rare in present-day usage except to suggest an older time: used in this dictionary to indicate a word not current since c1900. ...
Thou is an archaic form of you. “Thou” 是“you” 的古体。adv.-ally 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"同义词:primitive, so extremely old as ...
Old Chinese (redirected fromArchaic Chinese) Related to Archaic Chinese:Middle Chinese,Classical Chinese Old Chinese n. The Chinese language in the first millenniumbc, in which the earliest Confucian classics were written. Its pronunciation is reconstructed from the analysis of the development of Chines...
an archaic form of animal life.Discover More Usage Note Archaic is used as a label in this dictionary for terms and definitions that were current roughly as late as 1900 but are now employed only as conscious archaisms, as described and exemplified in definition 2 above. An archaic term is ...
How old were you when you first came into contact with death metal music? At what age did you learn to play musical instruments? What bands influenced you to form your own? Can you list some of your favorite bands? C: 我第一次接触死亡金属是在13岁。我爸爸也听重金属和死亡金属。所以我可...
reticence. The more-plausible view is that homosexuality was in some way connected with the rise of the polis and was part of what has been called the “8th-century renaissance.” If so, Homer’s silence is after all significant: he does not mention it because in his time it was not...
Before the Archaic Period, the most common form of artistic expression was pottery, which was often decorated in an abstract, geometric style. There was little figurative art at the time, and there were no unifying artistic traditions throughout the Mediterranean, pointing to a lack of contact ...
Now this phenomenon is already present in rudimentary form in the most archaic cultures. Literature What we have just said of the primitive applies in large measure to the man of the archaic cultures. Literature In any case, we are here in the presence of archetypal images, already document...
AsAristotlesays of Draco “there is nothing peculiar in his laws that is worthy of mention, except their severity in imposing heavy punishment” (Politics2.1274b). 雅典的政治在古代时期经历了一系列严重的变化,第一个变化很可能是坏的,天龙的法律,大约在公元前 622/621 年(这些法律的半传奇性质及其...
Whatever the date, the plan of the basic structure is simple, with an apse containing the altar in the east. The main part is a square form with a double-pitched roof. At the top is an unusual squat cupola with a small nob supporting a cross. ...