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archaistic

adj
/ɑːkeɪˈɪstɪk/UK

Etymology

From archaist + -ic.

  1. derived from *h₂ergʰ-✻
  2. formed as archaist — “archaic + -ist”
  3. suffixed as archaistic — “archaist + ic”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to an archaist

    Pertaining to an archaist; deliberately archaic, old-fashioned in an affected way.

    • The emperor Augustus introduced an archaistic revival of ancient virtue and ancient religion, which caused the poem of Lucretius On the Nature of Things to become unpopular, and it remained so until the Renaissance.

  2. Archaistic themes, motifs, items, etc.

    • As in the case of Renaissance Italy, it is precisely the presence of the archaistic in the modern that is so fascinating to the cultural historian.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA