Modernness: alternatives and connections

A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in…

A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet.

In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part…

An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It l…

A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable…

Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied…

Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe.

A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons.

form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?"; "We shouldn't pass…

an accusation of wrongdoing; "the book is an indictment of modern philosophy"

To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act.

a word borrowed from another language; e.g. ‘blitz’ is a German word borrowed into modern English

characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"

making modern in appearance or behavior; "the modernization of Nigeria will be a long process"

The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.

To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.

A variation of the Harvard computer architecture that allows the contents of the instruction memory to be accessed as if it were data.…

school of anthropology concerned with long-term culture change and with the similar patterns of development that may be seen in unrela…