Why not concede "archaic" based on the dictionary alone and confront consensual reality where you have leverage? Even if I had desire to idiosyncratically corr

Why not concede "archaic" based on the dictionary alone and confront consensual reality where you have leverage? Even if I had desire to idiosyncratically corrupt "gage"(verb) to "old-fashioned," much of the rest of the English-speaking world would still require persuading they're old-fashioned or stylistic. I'm not up for that. I'll settle having read the dictionaries and considered the evidence presented in order to communicating with the world at large on its terms. Using "gage"(verb), I'll be able to communicate with the prescriptivists and the descriptivists. And apparently the Army. Irregardless, for all intensive porpoises, it's a doggy-dog world. Now excuse me while I kiss this guy.