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[VirianLexicon]:[dormant]

!!!Dormant
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[Memes|meme] currently without human hosts. The ancient Egyptian hieroglyph system and the Gnostic Gospels are examples of "dead" schemes which lay [dormant] for millennia in hidden or untranslatable texts, waiting to re-activate themselves by infecting modern archeologists. Some obsolete [memes|meme] never become entirely dormant, such as Phlogiston theory, which simply mutated from a "[belief]" into a "quaint historical footnote."
