Definition of Archaizers

1. archaizer [n] - See also: archaizer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Archaizers

archaics
archaio-
archaiopteryx
archaise
archaised
archaises
archaising
archaism
archaisms
archaist
archaistic
archaists
archaize
archaized
archaizer
archaizers (current term)
archaizes
archaizing
archangel
archangelic
archangelical
archangels
archbishop
archbishophood
archbishophoods
archbishopric
archbishoprick
archbishopricks
archbishoprics
archbishops

Literary usage of Archaizers

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

1. Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt: Lectures Delivered on by James Henry Breasted (1912)
"In the endeavor to reconstitute modern religion, society, and government upon ancient lines, the archaizers must consciously or unconsciously have been ..."

2. Hellas and Hesperia: Or, The Vitality of Greek Studies in America ; Three by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (1909)
"But Professor Hatzidakis is a champion of the archaizers, and he goes too far. There is a great gulf fixed between any kind of ancient Greek and the modern ..."

3. A History of the Ancient Egyptians by James Henry Breasted (1908)
"In this endeavour to reconstitute modern religion, society and government upon ancient lines, the archaizers must consciously or unconsciously have been ..."

4. Revue de linguistique et de philologie comparée edited by Abel Hovelacque, Julien Girard de Rialle, Emile Picot, Julien Vinson (1898)
"... note its rareness, and it is almost safe to say that it is limited to Plautus and his immediate imitators, or to archaizers. Terence does not use it. ..."

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