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What is the adjective for archaistic?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs archaize, archaicise, archaicize and archaise which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

archaic
  1. Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
  2. (of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.
  3. (archaeology) Belonging to the archaic period
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “He was dressed in archaic plate armor and a long white cloak, which was held around his shoulders by a fine gold clasp.”
archaistic
  1. Pertaining to an archaist; deliberately archaic, old-fashioned in an affected way.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Due to the archaistic nature of the source material there remains some ambiguity.”
      “Most of the archaistic and literal words can be found in lyrics dealing with religion and history.”
      “Created in Rome in 1912, it is one of Manship's earliest works in which he employs these archaistic elements.”
archaical
  1. Archaic form of archaic.
archaized
archaizing
archaicised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of archaicise
archaicising
  1. present participle of archaicise
archaicized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of archaicize
  2. Synonyms:
archaicizing
archaised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of archaise
archaising
  1. present participle of archaise
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