archaising

Victorian architecture, though, was not simply an exercise in archaising.

British architecture: Victorian and Edwardian 2011

The ancient world changed slowly, and we know that at this particular time Greeks (if not also Romans) rather played at archaising manners.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

The idea of such archaising is peculiar to modern times.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

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.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

Whether we regard the Achaeans as "Celts," with Mr. Ridgeway, victors over an Aryan people, the Pelasgic Mycenaeans; or whether, with Mr. Hall, we think that the Achaeans were the Aryan conquerors of a non-Aryan people, the makers of the Mycenaean civilisation; in the stress of a conquest, followed at no long interval by an expulsion at the hands of Dorian invaders, there would be little thought of archaising among Achaean poets.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

A modern critic, who thinks this possible, is bringing the practice of archaising poets of the late nineteenth century into the minds of rhapsodists of the eighth century before Christ.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

No such idea of archaising occurred to the learned Virgil.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

But it is only in the long run that this effect can be counted on; and it is perhaps not securely to be counted on even in a moderately long run of things as they have run hitherto, if due precautions are taken by the interested statesmen, -- as would seem to be indicated by the successful conservation of archaic traits in the German peoples during the past half century under the archaising rule of the Hohenzollern.

An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation Thorstein Veblen 1893