Sentence examples for archaic definition from inspiring English sources

Those who benefit most channel their overseas income through tax havens, so that it is taxed nowhere.The greatest anomaly is the archaic definition of domicile.

And as such, I'd be profoundly disappointed were anyone to write about my choices and circumstances based on the narrow, archaic definition of family life that this article set out as the only plausible norm.

An F.B.I. advisory board voted this week to modernize an archaic definition of rape that the agency has used for more than eight decades in its tally of national crime statistics.

WASHINGTON — Thousands of sexual assaults that occur in the United States every year are not reflected in the federal government's yearly crime report because the report uses an archaic definition of rape that is far narrower than the definitions used by most police departments.

In a statement, Eggman called it an "archaic definition" that "finds any excuse to be lenient with rapists".

Merriam-Webster is the one of the most-used dictionaries in the United States and the only dictionary to include this archaic definition.

It reduces the man and woman to the most archaic definitions.

Some people who are locked into archaic definitions and immovable standards may insist that "Lackawanna Blues" is not a play.

Archaic definitions for fool include "imbecile, idiot, mentally defective, silly, stupid devoid of wisdom".

Despite increased efforts to curb campus assault and hold schools accountable – the FBI has changed its once-archaic definition of rape, a new White House task force wants answers, and schools like Harvard and Dartmouth have promised new policies – the nation's university administrators are still failing young people in their care.

The result will be the first 'sea ice' dictionary to carry both archaic and contemporary definitions of the same thing.