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Definition of Antiquating
1. antiquate [v] - See also: antiquate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antiquating
Literary usage of Antiquating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquarian and Architectural Year Book for (1845)
"tone or attemper their new glass, it would not follow that we might therefore
practise antiquating. For the process, as well as the object, ..."
2. An inquiry into the difference of style observable in ancient glass by Charles Winston (1867)
"And " I do not go to the length of condemning all dirtying or "antiquating" of
glass whatever, my objection is to the abuse of the practice. ..."
3. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1851)
"There is fortunately no attempt at antiquating in this window ; indeed the effect
... There is not the slightest attempt at antiquating in either of these ..."
4. Memoirs Chiefly Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County by Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1854)
"Powells', and Messrs. Hartleys' processes for roughening the surfaces of the
glass, are the most successful, though but expedients after all. " Antiquating ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"... but it exercises a disturbing influence on the previous system of thought,
antiquating something, disintegrating something, compelling some readjustment ..."
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