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The superb piece, previously unpublished, displays archaistic features.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 published for the first time on the title-page is a red cornelian in the British Museum, probably Graeco-Roman, and treated in an archaistic style.
From Letters to Dead Authors by Lang, Andrew
The rich and severe style may, for all we know—for direct evidence fails us—be the natural mark of some reactionary archaistic school about the time of Plato or Aristotle.
From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes
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 Wilde, Oscar
Statues, various types of, 65; votive, 315; archaic, 65–70, 71, 72; at Argos, 418; archaistic, 70.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.
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