archaize
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- archaise (non-Oxford British English)
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archaize (third-person singular simple present archaizes, present participle archaizing, simple past and past participle archaized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)
- (transitive) To give an archaic quality or character to; make archaic, to suggest the past.
- 2018, Jan Assmann, The Invention of Religion:
- 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.
- The statue had an archaized quality to it.
- (intransitive) To speak, write, etc. in an archaic manner.
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To give an archaic quality or character to
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