Helen Fenton

Archaism: Definition and part of speech

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Archaism

  1. a. Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness.
  2. a. An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Archangel: Definition and part of speech

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Archangel

  1. n. A term applied to several different species of plants (Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.).
  2. n. A chief angel; one high in the celestial hierarchy.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Archangelic: Definition and part of speech

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Archangelic

  1. a. Of or pertaining to archangels; of the nature of, or resembling, an archangel.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Archbishop: Definition and part of speech

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Archbishop

  1. n. A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.