Meaning of antiquitist | Babel Free

Definitions

Rare form of antiquist.

form-of, rare

Examples

““But,” he adds, “finding Tacitus, Eumenius, Ammianus Marcellinus, and Beda, in full and direct⟳ opposition to this idea, [certainly false with respect⟳ to the first and two last⟳, if not to the second;] and not choosing to imitate our Scotish antiquitists in fighting against authorities,[which is nevertheless his constant practice,] I was forced to abandon this ground. … For ancient authorities,” he concludes, “are the sole guides to real truth in historic antiquities; conjectures and arguments are only ingenious lies:” which made him abandon the former, and have⟳ recourse only to the latter (I. 106).”

“The discovery consists of seven large horns and other bones of extinct animals, known by antiquitists as the behemoth.”

“Every man needs a hero, not merely among the antiquitists, but among the personal friends, and to-night you have⟳ Sir William Whyte here.”

““We’ll not quarrel, your champion antiquitist and me. I only want⟳ to buy⟳ a chair for my sister to complete⟳ her set⟳, and I hear⟳ that Dymoke is the best antique chair man in the county – yes, Dymoke was the name⟳.[…]””

“Note⟳ here that Inoue was not an antiquitist, and his proposal was based on his “spirit of reform⟳.” His kokutai was not the retrospective one used by the classicists of early Meiji, but the ideology defined by, and further supportive of, the system of the modern nation-state.”

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