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Definition of Antiquates
1. antiquate [v] - See also: antiquate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antiquates
Literary usage of Antiquates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ueber den Gebrauch des Artikels in Milton's Paradise Lost by Max Karl Gottschalk (1883)
"... UB: — antiquates, addes, bids, makes, reveals, stands, seems, sets, puts,
weds; forms with th alternate sometimes with forms in s; we find in the same ..."
2. Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and by Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862)
"Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things,
hath yet spared these minor monuments. In vain we hope to be known by open ..."
3. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
""Time, which antiquates antiquities," will have some difficulty in destroying this.
And through all the chapter his style, like his theme, rises, ..."
4. The Bookman (1911)
"... antiquates antiquities, has mellowed the colours of his cravat and modified
the cut of his trousers; and whether he has framed or forgotten his diploma, ..."
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