He misleadingly calls the framers "Bible believing," an anachronistic term implying a literal faith in unerring Scripture that the 18th-century mind did not contemplate.
However, the ABI has reassured policy-holders that this "rather anachronistic" term is widely misunderstood, and that they will be covered by their policies.
Worse, the book can only enhance the tendency of journalists to use the (long anachronistic) term "the Kremlin" to describe every type of higher power in the country.
So for the next count, in 2020, the Census Bureau is considering collapsing the two ethnicity and race questions into a single "race or origin" inquiry (it may also drop the anachronistic term "Negro").
For several years I was plagued by a convenience store clerk who insisted on calling me "Boss," even after I told him that I found this anachronistic term, along with "Stretch," "Ace," "Slick," "Pops," "Dude," "Bro"' and "Big Fella," offensive.
Just inside the entrance is a massive sculpture of Ingersoll's head, rescued from destruction in 1966 by a nest of freethinkers (that lovely anachronistic term dating from the 17th century) in southwestern Michigan and recently rediscovered and restored.
In fact, when the word evil was used by President Bush to describe the terrorist attacks, it was partly because it was an anachronistic term, premodern in its force.
Creationists use the anachronistic term "Darwinism" as a pejorative synonym for evolutionary theory.
White-shoe Firm An anachronistic term once used to describe some brokers and dealers as 'upper-crust' and above such practices as participating in hostile takeovers.
