|
|
Definition of Archaistic
1. Adjective. Imitative of an archaic style or manner. "Archaistic writing"
Definition of Archaistic
1. a. Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.
Definition of Archaistic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to an archaist; deliberately archaic, old-fashioned in an affected way. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Archaistic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archaistic
Literary usage of Archaistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rambles and studies in Greece by John Pentland Mahaffy (1878)
"The Artemis is the more archaistic of the two, and I, therefore, take this specimen
first. It maintains in the face the very features which we think so ..."
2. Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art by Adolf Furtwängler (1895)
"But above all we must speak here of the statue of Artemis at Munich,2 that
remarkable archaistic work whose exquisite draperies, at once floating and ..."
3. History of Ancient Art by Franz von Reber, Joseph Thacher Clarke (1902)
"An established conventionalism,—that contentment with the mere handiwork of
acquired forms which existed Fig. i99-archaistic Artemis from Pompeii. for ..."
4. The Story of Art Throughout the Ages: An Illustrated Record by Salomon Reinach (1904)
"The Coliseum.—The Adoption of the Vault.—The Pantheon and the Basilica of
Constantine.—Triumphal Arches.—The archaistic Reaction under Augustus. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"archaistic works must be carefully distinguished from authentic copies of archaic
works of art, though sometimes they show the same characteristics as these ..."
Other Resources:
