Archaistic

There was a period which we call archaistic, and by this we indicate a time when it was the fashion for the sculptors to imitate as nearly as possible the works of the true archaic period. ❋ Clara Erskine Clement Waters (1875)

Icelandic, was studying the ancient sagas in the faithful and vigorous paraphrase of Petersen, and all combined to determine him to make an experiment in a purely national and archaistic direction. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They rocked the boat and bucked an archaistic medical establishment in order to get what they wanted. ❋ Mother Jones RN (2007)

The gem on the title-page, now engraved for the first time, is a red cornelian in the British Museum, probably Graeco – Roman, and treated in an archaistic style. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He had the delicate strong features of a certain filleted head of a Greek athlete in the British Museum, an archaistic Graeco-Roman copy of a masterpiece of the fourth century, and that resemblance seemed symbolic of the austere nobility of his verse. ❋ W.B. Yeats (1965)

The apartment occupied a hilltop above Christmas Landing Beneath it the city dropped away in walls, roofs, archaistic chimneys and lamplit streets, goblin lights of human-piloted vehicles, 'to the harbor, the sweep of Venture Bay, ships bound to and from the Sunward Islands and remoter regions of the Boreal Ocean, which glimmered like mercury in the afterglow of Charlemagne. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1973)

According to Haym, Hegel's philosophy of religion is “archaistic,” exhibits “apologetic, reac - tionary (restaurative) tendencies,” and is an attempt, like that of the Neo-Platonists, to refurbish the myths of a dying religion. ❋ H. B. ACTON (1968)

One, written in archaistic characters, from the south east palace at Kalhu, has long been known. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

He has a certain archaistic mannerism in his work recalling the Aeginetan marbles, which individuality puts a ❋ Juliet Helena Lumbard James (N/A)

Such single instances suggest, indeed, a common origin in the U and V, and a poet's license, archaistic perhaps; but no more determine the ordinary value of the letter than, say, in the English poets the rhyming of wind with mind, or the making a distinct syllable of the _ed_ in participle endings. ❋ Frances Ellen Lord (N/A)

Another important document is the Black Stone, a four sided prism with archaistic writing. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

There had always, it may be noted, existed an archaistic section of literary society. ❋ Harold Edgeworth Butler (1914)

Restless and hungry murmurs, like those heard at the sea-lions 'enclosure in the Zoological Gardens when feeding-time approaches, seemed to indicate tea first, and with gallant greetings from the Major, and archaistic welcomes from the Padre, Miss Mapp headed the general drifting movement towards the buffet. ❋ Unknown (1903)