archaistic writing.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture] Reference

Another important document is the Black Stone, a four sided prism with archaistic writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assyrian Historiography] Reference

One, written in archaistic characters, from the south east palace at Kalhu, has long been known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assyrian Historiography] Reference

They rocked the boat and bucked an archaistic medical establishment in order to get what they wanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

He has a certain archaistic mannerism in his work recalling the Aeginetan marbles, which individuality puts a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to Dead Authors] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henrik Ibsen] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Queen of Air and Darkness]

Hadrian, Emperor; and archaistic period, 27; and Glycon, 88.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture] Reference

Many of these archaistic works are in various museums of art.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture] Reference

Metaphysical definition has to-day taken a slightly archaistic turn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps] Reference

In sound and structure Mather's style is what the critics call "archaistic.".    From Wordnik.com.  [American Sketches 1908] Reference

Augustus, Emperor; and archaistic period, 27; and Grecian spoils, 84; statue of, 102.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture] Reference

There had always, it may be noted, existed an archaistic section of literary society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

All the later complications -- the archaic and archaistic conundrums; the influences of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greater Inclination] Reference

Mr. Morris, and Avia, make him Icelandic, and archaistic, and hard to scan, though vigorous in his fetters for all that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays in Little] Reference

To the extreme right of the spectator stands a little female statue of a goddess, in archaistic style, crowned with the calathos, and holding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference

But I have often ventured to remonstrate against these archaistic peculiarities, which to some extent mar our pleasure in Mr. Morris's translations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures Among Books] Reference

He saw the later literary epic rise in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, a poem with many beauties, if rather an archaistic and elaborate revival as a whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Tennyson] Reference

Sometimes it returns upon its footsteps, and revives some antique form, as happened in the archaistic movement of late Greek Art, and in the pre-Raphaelite movement of our own day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intentions] Reference

Polycrates; these and numberless articles of vertu testified to the universality of what St. Elmo called his "world-scrapings," and to the reckless extravagance and archaistic taste of the collector.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Elmo] Reference

Moreover, Ibsen, who read no 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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henrik Ibsen] Reference

In each case a successful effort was made to have it appear as if the old institutions of the republic were being reinstated, whereas as a matter of fact the form alone was old with its age artificially emphasised occasionally by an archaistic touch, while the content was quite new.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Mapp] Reference

One girl artist learned in classical archaeology, and a haunter of the British Museum, had made a charcoal study of a well-known archaistic "Diespiter" of the Augustan period, on the same sheet with a rapid sketch of Meadows when lecturing; a performance which had been much handed about in the lecture-room, though always just avoiding -- strangely enough -- the eyes of the lecturer.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Great Success] Reference

In the other direction, from the lower culture to the higher, exchange is slow, albeit likely to be promoted, in certain cases, by peculiar conditions, such as the deliberate literary choice which seeks opportunity for archaistic representation, or the respect which an advanced race may have for the magical ability of a simple tribe, believed to be nearer to nature, and therefore more likely to remain in communion with natural forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk] Reference

Strict about certain things; archaistic, you might say. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorations]

A confused welter of archaistic battle, learned allusion, and epic commonplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

This archaistic "craze" to imitate old sculptures was at its height in the times of the Roman emperors Augustus and Hadrian; but here in America we have seen the same passion manifested in the desire to have such furniture as Queen Anne and her people admired, or such as "came over in the Mayflower;" and when the true original articles were no longer to be found in garrets and out-of-the-way places, then manufacturers began to imitate the old in the new, and one can now buy all sorts of ancient-looking furniture that is only just from the workmen's hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture] Reference

With all their truth to physical form and movement, with a conscious mastery of delineation, they were, nevertheless, in certain details, in the hair, for instance, archaic, or rather archaistic -- designedly archaic, as from the hand of a workman, for whom, in this subject, archaism, the very touch of the ancient master, had a sentimental or even a religious value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greek Studies: a Series of Essays] Reference