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Archive   /ˈɑrkˌaɪv/   Listen
noun
Archive  n.  (pl. archives)  
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."
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."
Synonyms: Registers; records; chronicles.





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... any details, so I installed myself in the Casa de Canonigos, asked for the Libro de Turnos and there from day to day I'd look over list after list until I found the date of the lawsuit; from there I went to Las Salesas, located the archive and I spent an entire month in a garret opening dockets until I found the documents. Then I had to get baptismal certificates, seek recommendations from a bishop, run hither and thither, intrigue, scurry to this place and that, until the question began to clear up, ...
— The Quest • Pio Baroja
... archive of long letters. The captain, who, for the sake of fighting the infidels, had so sadly neglected his property that his own house in the Kramgasse fell into the hands of his creditors, had rented the second story ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... full-text edition, I have transliterated Pater's Greek quotations. If there is a need for the original Greek, it can be viewed at my site, http://www.ajdrake.com/etexts, a Victorianist archive that contains the complete works of Walter Pater and many other nineteenth-century ...
— Essays from 'The Guardian' • Walter Horatio Pater
... correspondence was being constantly carried on from one part of the civilised world to the other. Even the Bedawin shekhs, who acted as free-lances in Palestine, sent letters to the Pharaoh and read his replies. The archive-chambers of the cities of Canaan contained numberless documents contemporaneous with the events they recorded, and the libraries were filled with the treasures of Babylonian literature, with legends and ...
— Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations • Archibald Sayce
... | | Page 270: 'suits of rooms' replaced with | | 'suites of rooms' | | Page 280: significance replaced with insignificance | | (see Chevalier's book "Remarks on the | | production of the precious metals, and on the | | depreciation of gold" on page 28. | | http://www.archive.org/details/remarksonproduct00chevuoft)| | Page 292: maratime replaced with maritime | | Page 334: Dionysaic replaced with Dionysiac | | Page 393: Ilaid replaced with Iliad | | Page 446: admiting replaced with admitting | | Page 475: uninterupted replaced ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy


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