List: archaic
Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.
archaic expression
- act with restraint and conform to the ways of etiquette
archaic godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to match, to equal
- to catch up with, to overtake
archaic expression
- peerless, without equal
archaic expression
- to cast aside one's prejudices
archaic expression
- to cast aside one's beliefs and doctrines
archaic adverb
- just a tiny bit
archaic noun noun (generic)
- prisoner
archaic noun noun (generic)
- black rope used to bind criminals, being bound in prison
archaic noun noun (generic)
- smooth unlettered back surface of an old "zeni" coin
historical term noun noun (generic) archaic
- taotie (Chinese mythological creature commonly represented as a motif on ritual bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties)
- covetousness, greed, avarice