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Adjective: archaic  aa(r)'key-ik
  1. So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
    "archaic laws"
    - antediluvian, antiquated
     
  2. Little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
    "archaic forms of life"
    - primitive

See also: early, old

Encyclopedia: Archaic

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