Word: archaicism
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...Quibell, of the Department of Antiquities, Cairo, will give a lecture, illustrated by stereopticon views, on "Archaic Egypt in the Light of Recent Investigations," in the lecture room of the Semitic Museum at 8 o'clock this evening...
...SEMITIC CONFERENCE. Archaic Egypt in the Light of Recent Investigations. (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Mr. J. E. Quibell, of the Department of Antiquities, Cairo. Semitic Museum...
...short study shows us that these monuments are divided into two classes. The first class represents people after death, and is typified by archaic reliefs. In the second class, men are represented in life. Tombstones of this kind may still be found at Athens, preserved through the ruin and devastation of centuries...
...remembered that while in the Graduate School in 1893 he won a Sohier prize essay on the same subject as that of his book now soon to be published. Last October Mr. Corbin went to Baliol College, Oxford, and since then has been studying there certain archaic features of the Elizabethan drama in preparation for the publication of his book, which will have a prefatory note by F. York Powell, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. As its title shows, the book is a study of Hamlet, and of Shakespeare's environment, with the object of showing that...
...exact point of time when the speech of England became what we understand under the name English, and that a language existed as early as three centuries and a half after the Norman conquest which is perfectly comprehensible to us and which differs from our own only in being archaic...