(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(10) Nor was it an institution, or a curious, outdated source of national pride, or an embarrassingly archaic badge of national pride , of a Britain continuing to punch above its weight on the international scene.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.
Naught
Definition:
(adv.) Nothing.
(adv.) The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher.
(adv.) In no degree; not at all.
(a.) Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless.
(a.) Hence, vile; base; naughty.
Example Sentences:
(1) A ny attempt to rein in the vast US surveillance apparatus exposed by Edward Snowden's whistleblowing will be for naught unless government and corporations alike are subject to greater oversight.
(2) Support for Peres evaporated when successive bomb attacks killed dozens in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and talks with Syria came to naught.
(3) Cotton had 36 points, 8 assists, 5 rebounds and two steals for the Friars and it all ended up being for naught as No.
(4) 8.13pm BST Mary is being extremely naught in stealing Frances' leftovers.
(5) But the young striker is offside, and it's all for naught.
(6) 2.01am BST Tigers 0 - A's 0, bottom of the 3rd Stephen Vogt works a full count but it is for naught, as Verlander blows a fastball by him to make him his fifth strikeout victim.
(7) His efforts come to naught, as he's dispossessed by - I think - Tom Ince.
(8) Representative Peter DeFazio of Oregon told reporters “basically, the president tried to both guilt people and then impugn their integrity” while Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota tweeted bitterly on Friday morning: “Now President Obama wants to talk?” But, all of Obama’s efforts proved for naught after Pelosi took the floor and spoke out against the deal.
(9) 9.56pm GMT EXTRA TIME, HALF TIME: Manchester United 1-0 Sunderland Another Sunderland corner comes to naught.
(10) If that is true, our efforts to act upon government advice and encouragement will have been for naught."
(11) United had started brightly, with Anthony Martial looking lively on the right wing, but a series of half-breaks and potential openings had come to naught.
(12) One was an opportunity for political dialogue, and the other an opportunity for reform following last year's BICI repor t. "Both those opportunities, however, came to naught, and the result may deal a deathblow, ironically, to the most moderate supporters of Bahrain's uprising," Dickinson says.
(13) When patients in treatment do not comply with medical directives, the most competent health care may go for naught and patients' well-being may be jeopardized.
(14) One day after a UN tribunal ruled overwhelmingly against Chinese claims to huge swaths of the strategically important waterway, Beijing rebuffed the verdict, calling it “a piece of paper that is destined to come to naught” .
(15) The most sophisticated repair may be for naught if the joints stiffen.
(16) A lifetime spent preparing, training, hour after agonizing hour, will have been for naught if an athlete dares to make a political statement at the wrong time about political events happening in a politicized Olympics; politicized in no small part by the IOC refusing to uphold their own charter when it applies to themselves.
(17) "Naught's had, all's Spent," laments Lady Macbeth, in the desolation that succeeds the bloody accomplishment of Duncan's murder.
(18) The resulting corner leads to another corner, which leads to naught, but this is all about the shot.
(19) Similarly prepared fractions from normal control spleens (NAc) containing 75 to 90% theta+cells and less than 10% Ig+ and naught cells were utilized in control cultures.
(20) At the broader policy level, policymakers must understand that efforts to reduce child mortality and improve child health will be for naught in the absence of efforts to protect against family-level deprivation.