(a.) Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its language is “archaic and obscure”, the commission says.
(2) Separate item pools were developed to measure each disposition: Trance, Nonconscious Involvement, Archaic Involvement, Drowsiness, Relaxation, Vividness of Imagery, Absorption, and Access to the Unconscious.
(3) The patriarchal laws and the predominantly male enforcers of said archaic acts of parliaments condemn us criminals if we terminate our pregnancies.
(4) The stomach of N. savona shows gastric glands of an archaic type, without any acid-secreting parietal cells.
(5) The study presents a demographic assessment of the Carlston Annis (Bt-5) Late Archaic hunting and gathering population recovered from the banks of the Green River in west-central Kentucky.
(6) In extreme anticipatory condensation--what I do propose, from my own reflections, is the preeminent importance of an archaic characterological core in depressive illness.
(7) The two most distinct models of recent human evolution, the multiregional and the recent African origin models, have different retrodictions concerning specific archaic-recent population relationships.
(8) The Parkinsonian-like walking pattern of the healthy old-aged human is thought to be a disinhibition of an archaic pattern of posture and movement.
(9) Stress is laid on the role played by archaic fears of being the bearer of evil tidings.
(10) Nor was it an institution, or a curious, outdated source of national pride, or an embarrassingly archaic badge of national pride , of a Britain continuing to punch above its weight on the international scene.
(11) It added that mistakes in how officers handled intelligence could be down to its "archaic paper-based system, a lack of personal responsibility by officers, convoluted policing structures and subjective assessments of what was relevant".
(12) Microbiology laboratories that offer only the archaic retrospective Weil-Felix serologic tests should review the needs of their patients.
(13) the projective identification (archaic form), the identification, the transference (in psychotherapy), the regression etc.
(14) These observations demonstrate that thyroglobulin has evolved from the condensation of a duplicated copy of the acetylcholinesterase gene with an archaic thyroglobulin gene encoding the major hormonogenic domain.
(15) It is considered as a transsynaptic degeneration which probably reveals an archaic phenomenon, submerged but not lost through evolution.
(16) We need a smarter system of information use, not a bigger one; a digital NHS, not a paper-based archaic NHS.
(17) When the dust settles from this particular takeover furore, we should start thinking more practically about the fundamental purpose of companies: the current structure of narrow shareholder ownership is based on an archaic interpretation of shareholding and a very narrow objective: to maximise their return.
(18) The state of Wisconsin is still clinging to an archaic contraceptive law that prohibits birth control for unmarrieds.¿The mos t tragic victims of this law are unmarried teen-agers because studies indicate that sexual intercourse is very frequent among teen-agers, yet access to contraception is hard to come by.¿It is hoped that the Legislature will see fit to repeal this outdated contraceptive law.
(19) These results strongly suggest the presence of a V-ATPase in pinocytic vesicles of E. histolytica, and thereby support the notion that the V-ATPases in the organelles of higher eukaryotes are derived from an archaic plasma membrane-bound form.
(20) Submitted to their narcissistically uncathected archaic superego, depressives are strictly directed towards law and order.
Manna
Definition:
(n.) The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.
(n.) A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food.
(n.) A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and F. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The anti-B-512-dextran represents a specific reagent for alpha-1,6-linked polyglucose, as evidenced by complete cross-reactivity with synthetic linear dextran; its specificity is emphasized by non-reactivity with alpha-1,6-linked synthetic manna, the monomeric residues of the two polymers differing only in position of the C-2 hydroxyl groups.
(2) This is manna from heaven for her and he loves it too.
(3) H. valbyensis, H. uvarum, and K. apiculata were a group which formed mannans which had identical H-1 regions in their proton magnetic resonance (PMR) spectra, and H. osmophila, K. africana, and K. magna mannas formed another group based on similar spectra.
(4) This is manna from heaven for Clinton and Trump loves it too Frank Luntz, Republican pollster Indeed, the public disclosure of her emails have, if anything, helped to humanise her: it emerged, for example, that she watches The Good Wife and Parks and Recreation but needed an aide’s help to find Homeland.
(5) It was like manna from heaven for George Osborne when the west's leading economic thinktank instructed its rich members back in May to tackle budget deficits without delay.
(6) Chris Woodhead 1994-2000 A thorn to teachers; manna for journalists.
(7) This does not stop the shameless duo from taking full credit for the manna from heaven, and doing their best to present the resulting boost to the economy as all part of their long-term plan.
(8) 8.58am: Yesterday's joint press conference was manna from heaven for the newspaper front pages.
(9) (2) MC540-mediated photolysis is not cell-cycle dependent (Manna and Sieber, 1985).
(10) Low fuel costs for a modern economy run on oil is manna from heaven.
(11) This was literally manna from heaven and it made them very happy to reach somebody in need.
(12) It has been pointed out that there are more economical ways to play Scrabble – on a Scrabble board, for example – but this hasn't stopped this app being hailed as manna from gadget heaven.
(13) By arguing that growth rates fell sharply when a nation's debt as a proportion of its annual output reached 90%, it was manna from heaven for those policy makers keen to take immediate and tough action to tighten fiscal policy.
(14) Acid treatment of the cell-wall D-mannas of Candida stellatoidea strains ATCC 36232 (Type I, A3 strain) and ATCC 20408 (Type II, A2 strain) gave (1----2)-linked beta-D-manno-oligosaccharides (dp 2-5), whereas treatment with alkali gave the (1----2)-linked alpha-D-mannobiose.
(15) Serologically active D-arabino-D-mannas ([alpha]D, +82 degrees approximately 89 degrees; ratio of D-arabinose to D-mannose, 1-2:1) were isolated from the soluble fraction of disintegrated cells of M. tuberculosis, M. smegmatis, and several other Mycobacterium species.