Sentence examples for archaic function from inspiring English sources

Their archaic function was to provide a substitute for the scales that mammals left on the shore.

It is this archaic function of CSD proteins that may have special relevance to the endothelial adaptation to cold.

According to his interpretations, many of the symbols, transforming the archaic libido into other functions, come out of dream experiences in a kind of intuition or revelation.

This claim supports the hypothesis proposed in this paper that a system of derivational affixes can be reconstructed for Archaic Chinese which displays functions comparable to those proposed for the Germanic aspectual prefix ge/ga-.

The functions of the lips in humans are various: the archaic parts account for sphincter function, food intake (catching food, breaking food, eating, moistening, and tasting), and breathing, whereas the phylogenetically newer parts serve communication through facial expression and speech.

This confusion reveals a duality of thought operating within her - that of archaic beliefs of her feminine function versus her divine need for self-realization.

This was a quantum leap on 1990s shows such as Will & Grace, in which the gay characters had the whiff of "confirmed bachelors", to use the archaic euphemism of obituary writers, rarely presented in functioning relationships, much less in love.

The antis are wised-up technologically and make good use of the internet (compare the creakily archaic bullfight industry, which continues to function more or less as if the world wide web had never been invented).

This archaic relationship of plant form to function was based in the "Doctrine of Signatures".

In Modern Standard Chinese the subordinating particle de combines the functions of several Late Archaic Chinese particles, and the verb particle le and the homophonous sentence particle le have taken over for other Late Archaic forms.

Ian's version appeared in 1960; six years earlier had come his translation from the French of Marcel Mauss's essay The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies.