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archaise

archaise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of archaize.

Meaning of archaize

Verb

archaize (third-person singular simple present archaizes, present participle archaizing, simple past and past participle archaized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To give an archaic quality or character to; make archaic, to suggest the past.
    • The statue had an archaized quality to it.
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive) To speak, write, etc. in an archaic manner.

Forms of archaise

third-person singular presentarchaises
present participlearchaising
past participlearchaised
pastarchaised

Words formed from archaise

Questions about archaise

What is archaise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Archaise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of archaize.

Words near archaise in the dictionary

  1. Archainbaud
  2. archaio-
  3. archaiologies
  4. archaiology
  5. archaiopteryx
  6. archaise
  7. archaised
  8. archaiser
  9. archaisers
  10. archaises
  11. archaising

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: archaise (page history and authors); archaize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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