archaize

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

(transitive) To give an archaic quality or character to; make archaic, to suggest the past.
- 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.
The statue had an archaized quality to it.
(intransitive) To speak, write, etc. in an archaic manner.

To give an archaic quality or character to