Word: archaice
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Indispensable to the dispenser, be he doctor or druggist, is the dispensatory. The archaic name is appropriate: last week appeared the 25th edition in 122 years of The Dispensatory of the United States of America (Lippincott; $25), a strapping oldster...
Elder, calling the former policy of the GSAS "completely archaic," said that most students only need loans for short-term purposes, since a large scholarship program in general covers such basic expenses as tuition. "Although I don't expect a raid on the bank, lower interest rates should certainly make loans more bearable," he said...
Having won the battle to make Lamont more available, Crimeds voted that it should also be made more useful. "The University is well aware that the study of books is an archaic hangover of a bygone age," they noted...
...plays the same piece on 14 instruments, the oldest dating from the 15th century (Ltübeck, Germany), the newest from last year (Royal Festival Hall, London). Some of them were undoubtedly used by old Virtuoso Bach himself. Some of the organs are scintillant and percussive, some hoarse with archaic, buzzing tone; some are housed in churches where the echo lasts so long that the sound takes on a luminous vagueness...
...papers condemned such improper journalism. But the surprising fact in the whole situation was how carefully the respectable papers, without being so vulgar as to mention Townsend's name, had kept their readers up on the news. They did so by a sudden rash of articles about the archaic Royal Marriage Act which requires that Parliament shall have a year in which to disapprove of any marriage in the royal family. The Manchester Guardian learnedly explained that the act was passed by the slimmest of majorities in 1772 to control the marriages contracted by the libertine brothers of George...