Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who studies, collects, or deals in antiquities.
- adjective Of or relating to antiquarians or to the study or collecting of antiquities.
- adjective Dealing in or having to do with old or rare books.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to antiquaries or to antiquarianism; connected with the study of antiquities, particularly of such as are comparatively modern, and of such as have interest rather as curiosities than for their inherent or archæological importance: as, an antiquarian museum.
- An epithet applied to a size of drawing-paper, 53 × 31 or 52 × 29 inches.
- noun Same as
antiquary , 1 and 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An antiquary.
- noun A drawing paper of large size. See under
Paper , n. - adjective Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity.
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- adjective Pertaining to antiquaries, or to
antiquity ; as, antiquarian literature. - noun A collector, student or expert of
antiquities orantiques .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities
- noun an expert or collector of antiquities
- adjective of or relating to antiques or antiquities
Etymologies
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Examples
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Showman -- At Home! and A Slap at Slop! engaged primarily in antiquarian research for his projected
Brief Chronology 1998
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Today, there's a trend toward decorating with such exotic, "antiquarian" - looking objects.
RutlandHerald.com 2009
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The reverend father Dom Calmet, a great antiquarian, that is, a great compiler of what was said in former times and what is repeated at the present day, has confounded lues with leprosy.
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Also, Hone is engaged in long-term antiquarian research in British Library, probably begun as preparation for his announced (but never produced)
Brief Chronology 1998
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Saturnalia of Lipsius, who, as an antiquarian, is inclined to excuse the practice of antiquity, (tom.iii. p. 483 — 56 Cod.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Carlyle called the antiquarian or historical researcher "Dryasdust."
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And classical reminiscences have, even with him, a dull musty tinge which recalls the antiquarian in his Cambridge college-rooms rather than the visitor to Florence and Rome.
Proserpine and Midas Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824
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This retrieval of information not instantly validated by presentist urgencies may seem to belong to what Nietzsche called "antiquarian" history: the indiscriminate preservation of everything just because it is old (73-74).
Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History 2002
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We cannot fetishize "antiquarian" history as a solution to our problems, but it is a restraint upon despair or chaos.
Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History 2002
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While the "antiquarian" methods that Simpson urges us to adopt invite us to experience reading as a "meditative" act in which our epistemological and ultimately our ontological relations to historical material are both tentative and multi-directional, he doesn't afford this kind of flexibility to presentist readers.
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