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Definition of Antiquaries
1. antiquary [n] - See also: antiquary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antiquaries
Literary usage of Antiquaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"at this same time the president of the Society of antiquaries and the president
of the Royal Society, pushed through a reform, establishing a council and ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"antiquaries, AND THEIR VALUE AS HISTORICAL EVIDENCES. The work that is now going
on at the Society of antiquaries in reference to the collection of royal ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1891)
"RS, the President of the Society of antiquaries, in the chair. The following
associations were represented by one or more delegates, so that, ..."
4. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... and the learned Society of antiquaries." The first, fourth, sixth, and three
concluding lines are particularly happy imitations of a Latin inscription. ..."
5. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Joseph Haydn, Benjamin Vincent (1889)
"A col lege of antiquaries is Exchange burnt ; archive«, Ac., destroyed « Aug.
... The Society of antiquaries of France (1814) began in 1805 as ..."
6. Learned Societies and English Literary Scholarship in Great Britain and the by Harrison Ross Steeves (1913)
"CHAPTER II THE ELIZABETHAN SOCIETY OF antiquaries The most ancient of our literary
societies—and probably the most ancient of all English learned ..."
7. History of Roman Private Law by Edwin Charles Clark (1906)
"The third, but by no means the least important of our secondary sources consists
of the antiquaries and "grammarians " of the literary period. ..."
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