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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Archive \Ar"chive\, n.; pl. {Archives}. [F. archives, pl., L. archivum, archium, fr. Gr. [?] government house, [?] [?] archives, fr. [?] the first place, government. See {Archi-}, pref.] 1. pl. The place in which public records or historic documents are kept. Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses. --Gov. of Tongue. 2. pl. Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family. [Rarely used in sing.] Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. --Lamb. Syn: Registers; records; chronicles. | |
