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.
   • 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...2018, Jan Assmann, The Invention of Religion
2. (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive) To speak, write, etc. in an archaic manner.