Definition of Archaising

1. archaise [v] - See also: archaise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Archaising

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

Literary usage of Archaising

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

1. New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri by Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt (1897)
"It is much more probable that these differences of type correspond to differences of time than that they are due to archaising. ..."

2. Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang (1906)
"archaising is peculiar to modern times. To take an instance much to the point, Virgil was a learned poet, famous for his antiquarian erudition, ..."

3. Essays on the Art of Pheidias by Charles Waldstein (1885)
"The mischievous archaising theory must be dropped in connexion with this statue. Its origin can be very easily accounted for: No instance of the work of the ..."

4. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1909)
"Very frequently, too, there was deliberate archaising. Sir John Cheke, in his unfinished translation of the New Testament,l took many liberties not always ..."

5. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1893)
"... looks more like the confused imitation of an archaising compiler thu.na • parallel. '' For details see F. Pollock, Oxford Lectures, 18'JO, ..."

6. The Twentieth Century by Caroline Farrar Ware (1908)
"... archaising, apply these names) who interfered with southern Palestine.1 To this one more passage ought to be added from an earlier section. ..."

7. The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle by Ernest Barker (1906)
"It is clear that the State was thrown into the melting-pot : this actual innovation, and the archaising tendencies of earlier years, are both significant ..."

8. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"... and that perhaps had once been his own style; archaising thus, perceptibly, in order to distinguish the diction of the strollers from that of the main ..."

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