No one defends feudalism; it is anachronous and absurd. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO SPEAKS TO MEDICAL CONGRESS] Reference
That skyscraper which seems to be (an anachronous) LexCorp Tower. From Wordnik.com. [Annotations for Trinity issue #52 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference
You can locate earlier archetypal accessories and added anachronous items. From Wordnik.com. [car genitalia Auto PARTS] Reference
The concept of blocking the broadcast of a game to encourage live attendance is not a completely foreign or anachronous concept, particularly to NFL fans in Jacksonville this year. From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel A. Feldman: College Football and Competition] Reference
For government produced information that is law-related and needed by citizens to enforce or discover their legal rights, the added control provided by Crown copyright and prerogative is anachronous and can potentially lead to censorship. From Wordnik.com. [Crown Copyright and the Internet — Slaw] Reference
While the student should possess enough knowledge of the historic styles and examples of lettering to prevent him from using incongruous or anachronous forms in the same design, historic accuracy need not prevent him from engrafting the characteristics of dissimilar styles upon one another, provided that the results prove harmonious and appropriate. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples] Reference
The bill was, however, returned "Ignoramus," and the use of the name was probably anachronous. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Richard Ingle The Maryland "Pirate and Rebel," 1642-1653] Reference
She stuck it out for six years in her anachronous kitchen, enduring a stove with only two functional burners and a boxed in kitchen with no windows. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
It had not justified its survival in our efficient days, it had held out -- thanks to Perry -- with absurd and anachronous persistence against the inevitable consolidation. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
The Fraser Institute is ideologically bound, unable to consider the possibility of error in their anachronous vision of unregulated capitalism as a system where rational individuals operate veraciously within perfect markets. From Wordnik.com. [BC Bloggers]
What it has most in common with, for me, is the sort of live production of Henry IV, Part One I saw as a kid, set on a sparse stage with characters in anachronous military uniform, or Tom Paulin's BBC-produced redaction of Prometheus Bound. From Wordnik.com. [Notes From The Geek Show] Reference
Once again, the anachronous ADL has proven that far from railing against discrimination and division, it is engaged in actively promoting and encouraging it by spreading libelous lies and concocting character assassinations in order to ensure its own survival. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
Prophecy is a thing which inhabits that subjunctivity level of "could not have happened", and in the casual tone of the stranger, the anachronous details and turns of phrase, even in the vaguely contemporary context we have reconstructed for it, or in the reality of the here and now in which we are the addressee, we are invited to see through the artifice, to ask ourselves if the claimed epistemic necessity of the prophecy -- that it "will happen" -- is even remotely plausible. From Wordnik.com. [Tim Pratt's "The Frozen One"] Reference
To question Jews’ right to form a people, or that people’s historic roots in the Middle East, or that people’s equality of rights with other peoples in the world, all seem anachronous to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism | Jewschool] Reference
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Blog access anachronous 9 February 2007. From Wordnik.com. [Labour of Love] Reference
86.a. anachronous b. wavering c. vacillating d. fluctuating Ans: (a) Explanation: anachronous = out of date, ahead of time. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
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