The Collaborative International Dictionary
Archaistic \Ar`cha*is"tic\, a. Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.
Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to an archaist; deliberately archaic, old-fashioned in an affected way.
WordNet
adj. imitative of an archaic style or manner; "archaistic writing"
Usage examples of "archaistic".
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.
But I have often ventured to remonstrate against these archaistic peculiarities, which to some extent mar our pleasure in Mr.
When Willett would mention some favourite object of his boyhood archaistic studies he often shed by pure accident such a light as no normal mortal could conceivably be expected to possess, and the doctor shuddered as the glib allusion glided by.
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.
The uniform was as archaistic as tights and a doublet, and much more uncomfortable.
Zhukovsky, Batyushkov was a modernist in verse and language, a continuer of the work of Karamzin, and a resolute enemy of Church Slavonic and archaistic rudeness.