ARCHIVING

Verb

archiving

present participle of archive

Source: Wiktionary


ARCHIVE

Ar"chive, n.; pl. Archives. Etym: [F. archives, pl., L. archivum, archium, fr. Gr. Archi-, pref.]

1. pl.

Definition: 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.

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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