antique
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăn′tēk′
ipa: /ˌanˈtiːk/
ipa: /ˌænˈtik/
note: conservative Received Pronunciation; General Australian
ipa: /ˌænˈtiːk/
ipa: /ˌɛnˈtiːk/
ipa: /ˌanˈtik/
ipa: /ˌanˈʈiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: antiquer
form: antiquest
form: antic
form: anticke
form: antiq.
Etymology: Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.
Senses: examples: text: […] 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, […]
ref: 1596, The Raigne of King Edvvard the third: […], London: Cuthbert Burby, unnumbered page:
text: Not that great Champion of the antique world, / Whom famous Poets verse so much doth daunt, / And hath for twelue huge labours high extold, / So many furies and sharp fits did haunt, / […]
ref: 1609, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene, Disposed Into XII. Bookes, Fashioning twelue Morall Vertues, London: Mathew Lownes, book 1, canto 11, verse 27, page 51:
text: I met a traveller from an antique land
ref: 1817 (published 11 January 1818), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Sonnet. Ozymandias.”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume III, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 67:
text: From the rest they stand out contrastingly, as the Apollo of the later Greek sculpture-school,—too graceful for divinity and too vivacious for marble,—placed in a company of the antiquer statues with their grand blind look of the almightiness of repose.
ref: 1842, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Essays on the Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets, New York: James Miller, published 1863, page 179:
text: Believe an impartial Howadji who has no Cangie or other boats to let at Mahratta, that Nubia is a very different land from Egypt, and that you have not penetrated antiquest Egypt, until you have been awe-stricken by the silence which was buried ages ago in Aboo Simbel, and by the hand-folded Osiride figures, that people, like dumb and dead Gods, that dim, demonic hall.
ref: 1851, George William Curtis, Nile Notes of a Howadji, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 159:
glosses: Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1841 July 3, “Fine Arts”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 714, London, page 509, column 3:
text: A lonesome traveler might have been seen, / On the turnpike road near the village green, / In a grotesque suit of ultra-marine / And a hat broad-brimmed and conical, / Awkwardly perched in a family cart— / The very antiquest kind / Of an umbrella arching o'er him, / A long black trunk behind / And a short white pony before him, / That ambles on with a jerk and a start, / As though it were taking an active part / In a piece of German machinery.
ref: 1865, H. T. Sperry, Country Love vs. City Flirtation; or, Ten Chapters From the Story of a Life, New York: Carleton, page 10:
text: “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom.[…]”
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
text: Lastly, I must mention the "Underground," to travel on which was, in those days, an experience to be remembered. There were the antique looking engines, and the rather grim carriages, with the fascinating indicators in the compartments to show (not always correctly!) the next station, and above all, there was the atmosphere.
ref: 1957 July 24, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 459:
glosses: Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Designating a style of type.
topics: arts
bookbinding
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Embossed without gilt.
glosses: Synonym of old (“of color: subdued, as if faded over time”).
synonyms: word: old
extra: of color: subdued, as if faded over time
glosses: Synonym of antic, specifically
synonyms: word: antic
word: specifically
glosses: Synonym of antic, specifically:
Fantastic, odd, wild, antic.
Synonyms: sense: out of date
word: antiquated
word: disused
word: outdated
word: obsolete
Derived terms: advertique
antique brass
antique car
antique crown
antiquely
antique rose
antique ruby
antique satin
antique shop
antique store
antique white
antiquification
antiquify
antiquist
antiquization
antiquize
antiquous
late antique
nonantique
pseudoantique
subantique
unantique
Related terms: ancient
antic
Antiqua
antiquarian
antiquary
antiquate
antiquation
antiquity
verd antique