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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) 2.0 [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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