Definition of Archaises

1. archaise [v] - See also: archaise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Archaises

archaeozoologist
archaeozoologists
archaeozoology
archaeplastid
archaeus
archaic
archaic-paralogical thinking
archaical
archaically
archaicism
archaics
archaio-
archaiopteryx
archaise
archaised
archaises (current term)
archaising
archaism
archaisms
archaist
archaistic
archaists
archaize
archaized
archaizer
archaizers
archaizes
archaizing
archangel
archangelic

Literary usage of Archaises

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (1901)
"In IV. and V. he archaises no more and cultivates the five-foot measure, the ornate phrase, and the interwoven rhymes of the Elizabethan sonneteer. ..."

2. Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang (1906)
"Yet Quintus consciously archaises, in a critical age, with Homer as his model. Any one who believes that in an uncritical age rhapsodists ..."

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