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v. - Give an obsolete or old-fashioned appearance or character to.

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Usage examples (7)
  • Even less are poets in uncritical times inclined to "archaise," either by attempting to draw fancy pictures of the manners of the past, or by making researches in...
  • "archaise," bringing in genuine, but by their time forgotten,
  • The most erudite ancient poet, in a critical age of iron, does not archaise in our modern fashion.
  • They do not archaise as to the details of life, but "the Homeric poets consciously and consistently archaised, in regard to the political conditions of continental...
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