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Antique
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- 1 Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.
"[…] Phillip the younger issue of the king, / Coting the other hill in such arraie, / That all his guilded vpright pikes do seeme, / Streight trees of gold, the pendant leaues, / And their deuice of Antique heraldry, / Quartred in collours seeming sundy fruits, / Makes it the Orchard of the Hesperides, […]"
- 2 Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
"Some traditions of this antiquer system may have passed into Van Eyck's method, from distemper into oil, and thence downwards, gradually more vague, into the modern process, till they at length disappeared altogether about Rubens's time."
- 3 Designating a style of type.
- 4 Embossed without gilt.
- 5 Synonym of old (“of color: subdued, as if faded over time”).
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- 6 Synonym of antic, specifically obsolete
- 7 Synonym of antic, specifically:; Fantastic, odd, wild, antic. obsolete
- 1 out of fashion wordnet
- 2 belonging to or lasting from times long ago wordnet
- 3 made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age wordnet
- 1 A province of Western Visayas, Visayas, Philippines. Capital: San Jose de Buenavista.
- 1 In general, anything very old; specifically:; An old object perceived as having value because of its aesthetic or historical significance.
- 2 any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity wordnet
- 3 In general, anything very old; specifically:; An object of ancient times.
- 4 an elderly man wordnet
- 5 In general, anything very old; specifically:; The style or manner of ancient times, used especially of Greek and Roman art. singular
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- 6 In general, anything very old; specifically:; An old person. derogatory, figuratively, mildly
- 7 In general, anything very old; specifically:; A man of ancient times. obsolete
"They supposed that they had seene those most beutyfull Dryades, or the natyue nymphes or fayres of the fountaynes whereof the antiques spake so muche."
- 8 A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.
- 9 Synonym of antic, specifically:; Grotesque entertainment; an antic. obsolete
"[…] I do implore secretie, that the King would haue me present the Princesse (sweete chuck) with some delightfull ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antique, or fierworke : […]"
- 10 Synonym of antic, specifically:; A performer in an antic; or in general, a burlesque performer, a buffoon. obsolete
- 1 To search or shop for antiques. intransitive
"Once our daughter-in-love, Janis, went antiquing with us because she and our firstborn, Matthew, were in the market for some bedroom furniture."
- 2 give an antique appearance to wordnet
- 3 To make (an object) appear to be an antique in some way. transitive
- 4 shop for antiques wordnet
- 5 To emboss without gilding. transitive
Etymology
Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.
Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.
Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.
From Spanish Antique, from Hiligaynon hantik.
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