0 of or belonging to an ancient period in history:
an archaic system of government
Planned in the 1990s, the system was archaic by the time it was implemented.
He has archaic ideas about women.
1 of or belonging to the past; from an ancient period in history:
Some people like to show off by using archaic words.
The Olympics united the fiercely independent city-states that characterized Greece in the archaic age.
They discovered hitherto unknown texts in archaic scripts.
The case study cites the problems in mapping archaic science terminology to appropriate current terms.
How did such bizarre and archaic ideas make their way into educational policy?
Both help the modern subject to discover and to appropriate its unconscious and archaic dimension.
The intrusion of archaic forms of narcissism, it is believed, is the source of anxiety disorders in the modern world.
This makes them interesting model organisms for the study of archaic resistance mechanisms during real space exposure.
