archaise
- a variation of archaize.
Example Sentences
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He says, "The Homeric culture is evidently the culture of the poet's own days; there is no attempt to archaise here…."
From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew
They do not archaise as to the details of life, but "the Homeric poets consciously and consistently archaised, in regard to the political conditions of continental Greece," in the Achaean times.
From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew
Sometimes they pedantically "archaise," bringing in genuine, but by their time forgotten, Mycenaean things, and criticism can detect their doings in each case.
From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew
Not only is such archaising inconsistent with the art of an uncritical age, but a careful archaiser, with all the resources of Alexandrian criticism at his command, could not archaise successfully.
From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew
Poets of an uncritical age do not archaise.
From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew
