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Definition of Archaise
1. Verb. Give an archaic appearance of character to. "Archaized craftwork"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Archaism, Archaist, Archaism, Archaist
Definition of Archaise
1. to archaize [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES] - See also: archaize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archaise
Literary usage of Archaise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang (1906)
"... Dipylon period in Greece.3 He says, "The Homeric culture is evidently the
culture of the poet's own days ; there is no attempt to archaise here . ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1904)
"... he knows the use of the trumpet in war, but never lets his heroes blow it ;
in fact he does archaise to a certain extent in culture as well as politics, ..."
3. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1896)
"I. Homer does consciously archaise to an extent far greater than Aristarchus
observed : II. The civilisation of the Homeric poets is not Achaean Lu! ..."
4. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1830)
"... having traveller! seven days very slow—for we did not. change horses, it being
impossible for archaise to go post iu these ronda—we ..."
5. Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-philologischen und historischen Classe by Königlich Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Philologische Klasse (1884)
"Dass sich der äussere Formalismus des archaise einerseits in den „prächtigen"
symmetrischen Falten vei liehen, andererseits mit Grossartigkeit, ..."
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