Meaning of antique | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome
2. In general, anything very old; specifically:
3. An old object perceived as having value because of its aesthetic or historical significance.
4. A province of Western Visayas, Visayas, Philippines. Capital: San Jose de Buenavista.
5. Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned
6. An object of ancient times.
7. Designating a style of type
8. The style or manner of ancient times, used especially of Greek and Roman art.
   singular
9. Embossed without gilt
10. An old person.
    derogatory, figuratively, mildly
11. Synonym of old (“of color: subdued, as if faded over time”)
12. A man of ancient times.
    obsolete
13. A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.
14. Synonym of antic, specifically:
    obsolete
15. Grotesque entertainment; an antic.
    obsolete
16. A performer in an antic; or in general, a burlesque performer, a buffoon.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“They supposed that they had seene those most beutyfull Dryades, or the natyue nymphes or fayres of the fountaynes whereof the antiques spake so muche.”

“Wee eas'ly limme, some louely-Virgin face, / And can to life, a Lantscip represent, / Afford to Antiques, each his proper grace, / Or trick out this, or that compartement : / […]”

“[…] I do implore secretie, that the King would haue me present the Princesse (sweete chuck) with some delightfull ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antique, or fierworke : […]”

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