archaize
verb/ˈɑː(ɹ).keɪˌaɪz/
Etymology From Ancient Greek ἀρχαΐζω (arkhaḯzō).
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British, English, Oxford, US To give an archaic quality or character to; make archaic, to suggest the past.
- The statue had an archaized quality to it.
- An Egyptologist's mind immediately turns to the ancient Egyptian counterpart to such an imagined protosactuary: a reed hut that all late Egyptian temples, in their archaizing longing to return to the origins, sought to emulate in stone through the typically Egyptian temple features of inward-sloping walls, torus and corvetto cornice.2018, Jan Assmann, The Invention of Religion:
- Synonyms
- archaicize
- Derived terms
- archaization, archaizer, archaizingly