Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Imitating that which is archaic; exhibiting the attempt to reproduce the characteristics of the archaic; affecting archaism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.

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  • adjective Pertaining to an archaist; deliberately archaic, old-fashioned in an affected way.

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  • adjective imitative of an archaic style or manner

Etymologies

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From archaist +‎ -ic.

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Examples

  • There was a period which we call archaistic, and by this we indicate a time when it was the fashion for the sculptors to imitate as nearly as possible the works of the true archaic period.

    A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875

  • Icelandic, was studying the ancient sagas in the faithful and vigorous paraphrase of Petersen, and all combined to determine him to make an experiment in a purely national and archaistic direction.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • Icelandic, was studying the ancient sagas in the faithful and vigorous paraphrase of Petersen, and all combined to determine him to make an experiment in a purely national and archaistic direction.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • They rocked the boat and bucked an archaistic medical establishment in order to get what they wanted.

    Lady Doctors Mother Jones RN 2007

  • They rocked the boat and bucked an archaistic medical establishment in order to get what they wanted.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Mother Jones RN 2007

  • 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.

    Letters to Dead Authors 2006

  • He had the delicate strong features of a certain filleted head of a Greek athlete in the British Museum, an archaistic Graeco-Roman copy of a masterpiece of the fourth century, and that resemblance seemed symbolic of the austere nobility of his verse.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • He had the delicate strong features of a certain filleted head of a Greek athlete in the British Museum, an archaistic Graeco-Roman copy of a masterpiece of the fourth century, and that resemblance seemed symbolic of the austere nobility of his verse.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • He had the delicate strong features of a certain filleted head of a Greek athlete in the British Museum, an archaistic Graeco-Roman copy of a masterpiece of the fourth century, and that resemblance seemed symbolic of the austere nobility of his verse.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • He had the delicate strong features of a certain filleted head of a Greek athlete in the British Museum, an archaistic Graeco-Roman copy of a masterpiece of the fourth century, and that resemblance seemed symbolic of the austere nobility of his verse.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

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