archaistic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The superb piece, previously unpublished, displays archaistic features.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2010
The gem on the title-page, now engraved for the first time, is a red cornelian in the British Museum, probably Graeco-Roman, and treated in an archaistic style.
From Letters to Dead Authors by Andrew Lang
One, written in archaistic characters, from the south east palace at Kalhu, has long been known.
From Assyrian Historiography by A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck) Olmstead
The word survives in “bootless,” i.e. useless or unavailing, and in such expressions, chiefly archaistic, as “what boots it?”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
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
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