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Definition of Archaize
1. Verb. Give an archaic appearance of character to. "Archaized craftwork"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Archaism, Archaist, Archaism, Archaist
Definition of Archaize
1. v. t. To make appear archaic or antique.
Definition of Archaize
1. Verb. To give an archaic quality or character to; make archaic, to suggest the past. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Archaize
1. to use archaisms [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archaize
Literary usage of Archaize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"The Homeric culture is evidently the culture of the poets' own days; there is no
attempt to archaize here, unless the wondering descriptions of the ..."
2. Matthew Arnold: How to Know Him by Stuart Pratt Sherman (1917)
"Remorseless reason enjoined it upon him not to archaize but to spend his labor
on the foundation of the new temple of the religious spirit. ..."
3. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1908)
"In a naive and uncritical age, he says, poets do not archaize. They represent
the situations of past times in the environment of their own day. ..."
4. The Cults of the Greek States by Lewis Richard Farnell (1896)
"Now the chiton was the archaic vesture of Zeus, and the coin- stamper of Hadrian's
time may have had some temptation to ' archaize' in his work as copyist. ..."
5. Literary Essays by George Edward Woodberry (1920)
"The aloofness that belongs to Swinburne's verse is not due only to his effort to
archaize the forms of his art, but much more to the fact that he reverts to ..."
6. Anthropology and the Classics: Six Lectures Delivered Before the University by Robert Ranulph Marett, Arthur Evans, Andrew Lang, Gilbert Murray, Frank Byron Jevons, John Linton Myres, William Warde Fowler (1908)
"... or from occasional mention of an iron sword or iron-headed spear, while they
did not archaize or follow tradition when they spoke of iron knives, axes, ..."
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