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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A repository of antiquities.
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By many people of recognized intelligence he is classified with genus antiquarium because some of his kind are known only as guardians and preservers of ancient records from use.
Eighth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1937-38 1938
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"Propylaeum antiquarium", which was really a first attempt to formulate rules for the discernment of spurious from genuine documents.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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For the past five years I had frequent dealings and conversations with Tom Hansen, for he was a benign, if stoical, presence in the antiquarium where I sold him fiction every Saturday.
Crosscut Jeffrey Long 2010
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Baxterum fiiisse omnimodae eruditionis viniin, beae peritum antiquarium, ciiticum acrem, etymologum ncqiie inaudacera,
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... John Nichols, Samuel Bentley 1812
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Adrertit is scrupulus virum erudi - tnm, quem ut ejiciat, non ea iide, qua agere religiosum antiquarium oportet,
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792
vanishedone commented on the word antiquarium
Free the fish.
(Actually, it's a repository for antiquities—not, as you might expect, a home for antiquaries, though the two are probably similar in practice.)
January 9, 2009