archaize

• archaise (non-Oxford British English)

From Ancient Greek ἀρχαΐζω (arkhaḯzō).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ).keɪˌaɪz/

archaize (third-person singular simple present archaizes, present participle archaizing, simple past and past participle archaized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (transitive) To give an archaic quality or character to; make archaic, to suggest the past.

   The statue had an archaized quality to it.

   • 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.

2. (intransitive) To speak, write, etc. in an archaic manner.

• archaicize

• Zecharia