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adjective

Antique adj.

Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome. "For the antique world excess and pride did hate."

Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe. "Antique words."

Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson's "Castle of Indolence."

Odd; fantastic. (In this sense, written antic)

Synonyms: Ancient; antiquated; obsolete; antic; old-fashioned; old. See Ancient.

noun

Antique n. In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases. "Misshapen monuments and maimed antiques."

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Etymology of 'Antique'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Antique" Quotes from Famous Books

... beginning a superior natural endowment for literature and art; and when this most gifted race came into contact with the antique culture and boundless commercial wealth of Asia and Africa, the loveliest and most fragrant flowers of the intellect shot forth in every direction. Carrying with them the traditions of their race and the war-songs of their bards to the very scenes ...

— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson

... and upstairs. Miss Pursill opened a door on the first floor and beckoned Charles to enter. It was a bedroom, furnished on the same scale of antique magnificence as the drawing-room downstairs. In a deep armchair in front of a fire sat an old woman, tucked up in an eiderdown of blue and white satin. She did not look round as they entered, but remained quite still—an immobile figure with a ...

— The Moon Rock • Arthur J. Rees

... delicately constituted for real work in literature and politics, and inclined to take a cynical view of his contemporaries generally, he turned for amusement to antiquarianism, and was the first to set modern art and literature masquerading in the antique dresses. That he was quite conscious of the necessity for more serious study, appears in his letters, in one of which, for example, he proposes a systematic history of Gothic architecture, such as has since been often enough executed. It does not, it may be said, ...

— Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) • Leslie Stephen

... a grievous load, And Chelsea, flower'd and spruce, And antique thingummies in spode; The only thing that none bestowed ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 • Various

... in 1285. The faade was commenced in 1476, and the beautiful sculpture on the great entrance door executed in 1503. It is generally covered by a plain outer door. In the interior to the right is the Baptistery, an octagonal chapel with six antique marble and two granite Corinthian columns about 30 ft. high, each shaft being of one stone. The ornamental sculpture on the panels and in the spandrels is by Puget. On the same side are two triptychs, one by Crayer, ...

— The South of France--East Half • Charles Bertram Black

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