archaize
verb (used with object)
to give an archaic appearance or quality to.
archaise
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a variation of
archaize.
Example Sentences
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The most erudite ancient poet, in a critical age of iron, does not archaise in our modern fashion.
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
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 Andrew Lang
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 Andrew Lang
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 Andrew Lang
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 Andrew Lang
