archaistic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The superb piece, previously unpublished, displays archaistic features.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2010
From some such feeling came the Pre-Raphaelite movement of our own day and the archaistic movement of later Greek sculpture.
From Reviews by Oscar Wilde
Sometimes it returns upon its footsteps, and revives some antique form, as happened in the archaistic movement of late Greek Art, and in the pre-Raphaelite movement of our own day.
From Intentions by Oscar Wilde
Metaphysical definition has to-day taken a slightly archaistic turn.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
Mr. Morris, and Avia, make him Icelandic, and archaistic, and hard to scan, though vigorous in his fetters for all that.
From Essays in Little by Andrew Lang
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