Word: archaice
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Less than half the Wends still speak their archaic language...
Gravely the hilakatas listened to the welcoming speeches. Their own speeches had an archaic ring, like the protests of medieval peasants centuries ago. They protested against forced labor, rapacious landlords, priests who demanded disproportionate fees for religious services. They pleaded for popular education. They wanted schools, books, modern agricultural science. Said their leader, Francisco Chipana, an Aymara: "We must learn and work. . . . Soon we shall rise like condors above Mt. Illimani.... Through our own efforts, we can surpass those foreigners whose works we now admire...
...political circles (his own listing in the 1920-21 Who's Who stated: "Widely known as a popular and political orator"). Politicos urged him to run for this office or that. Biding his time, Vandenberg stuck to his prose-which was oratorical, occasionally thunderous, and often adorned with archaic words. (He still writes with a dictionary on one side of his typewriter and a Bible on the other...
...Frank S. Persons II, Bastrop, La.: Church people "are worshipers of archaic patterns of thought. We have erected temples of the mind and enthroned on their altars certain banded-down ideas which we are as afraid to displace as any African tribesman his equally homemade and static wooden gods...
...daring modern comedy" written by Frederick Lonsdale in 1927 and set "in grandmother's day." It has been adapted for the screen by Actor Clive Brook, who also produced it, directed it (beautifully), and plays the male lead in it (still better). The lighting is deliberately archaic; the sets and props are an elegant combination of the suffocatingly ratty and the nostalgically exact...