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Antic   /ˈæntɪk/   Listen
noun
Antic  n.  
1.
A buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play.
2.
An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure. "Woven with antics and wild imagery."
3.
A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper. "And fraught with antics as the Indian bird That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage."
4.
(Arch.) A grotesque representation. (Obs.)
5.
An antimask. (Obs. or R.) "Performed by knights and ladies of his court In nature of an antic."


adjective
Antic  adj.  
1.
Old; antique. (Zool.) "Lords of antic fame."
2.
Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous. "The antic postures of a merry-andrew." "The Saxons... worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape."


verb
Antic  v. t.  (past & past part. anticked; pres. part. anticking)  To make appear like a buffoon. (Obs.)


Antic  v. i.  (past & past part. anticked; pres. part. anticking)  To perform antics.





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"Antic" Quotes from Famous Books



... and soft, lay Fontenelle asleep;[214] Let them with Browne contrive, to vulgar trick, To cure the dead, and make the living sick;[215] Let them in charity to Murphy give Some old French piece, that he may steal and live; Let them with antic Foote subscriptions get, And advertise a Summer-house of Wit. Thus, or in any better way they please, With these great men, or with great men like these, Let them their appetite for laughter feed; I on my Journey all alone proceed. If fashionable grown, ...
— English Satires • Various
... that in life's late day, With tottering step, and locks of gray, Essay'st each trick of antic glee, Oh! my heart bleeds at sight ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various
... declared. "A second-hand store is got old furniture from two years old oder ten years old, understand me; aber an antic store carries old furniture from a hundred ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass
... Herries, with sudden passion, and called to him with curses to come down. The figure drew back at the first cry, with an agitated movement so abrupt as almost to be called an antic. The next moment the man seemed to reconsider and collect himself, and began to come down the zigzag garden path, but with obvious reluctance, his feet falling in slower and slower rhythm. Through March's mind were throbbing the phrases that this man himself had ...
— The Man Who Knew Too Much • G.K. Chesterton
... . . . And lo! A flickering snatch of memory that floats Upon the face of a pool of darkness five And thirty dead years deep, Antic in girlish broideries And skirts and silly shoes with straps And a broad-ribanded leghorn, he walks Plain in the shadow of a church (St. Michael's: in whose brazen call To curfew his first wails of wrath were whelmed), Sedate ...
— Poems by William Ernest Henley • William Ernest Henley


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