Concord vs Archaic - What's the difference?
concord | archaic |
A state of agreement; harmony; union.
* Love quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. -
(obsolete) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league
* The concord made between Henry and Roderick. -
(grammar) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.
(legal, obsolete) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See fine.
(probably influenced by chord, music) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.
A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.
(archaeology, US, usually capitalized) A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘
* 1958 , Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology , University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page #107:
(paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens .
* 2009 , The Human Lineage , page 432:
Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
* 1848 , , The Biglow Papers :
* 1887 , , Historia Numorum A Manual Of Greek Numismatics :
* 1898 , , The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast :
(of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.
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Belonging to the archaic period
As a proper noun concord
is the state capital of new hampshire.As a noun archaic is
(archaeology|us|usually capitalized) a general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘[http://enwikipediaorg/wiki/paleo-indian paleo-indian]’, ‘paleo-american’, ‘american‐paleolithic’, &c ) of human presence in the western hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘woodland’, etc).As an adjective archaic is
of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.concord
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) concorde'', Latin ''concordia'', from . See heart, and compare accordNoun
(en noun)- (Burrill)
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From (etyl)archaic
English
Noun
(en noun)Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American?paleolithic’, &c .) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
- [...] Archaic Stage [...] the stage of migratory hunting and gathering cultures continuing into environmental conditions approximately those of the present.
- [...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.
Adjective
(en adjective)- A person familiar with the dialect of certain portions of Massachusetts will not fail to recognize, in ordinary discourse, many words now noted in English vocabularies as archaic , the greater part of which were in common use about the time of the King James translation of the Bible. Shakespeare stands less in need of a glossary to most New Englanders than to many a native of the Old Country.
- There is in the best archaic coin work [of the Greeks] ... a strength and a delicacy which are often wanting in the fully developed art of a later age.
- Brann's compass of words, idioms and phrases harks back to the archaic and reaches forward to the futuristic.''
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