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Webster 1913 Edition
Antiquarianize
Anˊti-qua′ri-an-ize
,Verb.
I.
To act the part of an antiquary.
[Colloq.]
Definition 2024
antiquarianize
antiquarianize
English
Alternative forms
- antiquarianise (non-Oxford British spelling)
Verb
antiquarianize (third-person singular simple present antiquarianizes, present participle antiquarianizing, simple past and past participle antiquarianized)
- (colloquial, dated, intransitive) To act the part of an antiquary.
- 1901, Mary H. Debenham, Una's friends: their holiday in fairyland
- She talks to old women, and tracks rare flowers, and sketches and photographs and geologizes and antiquarianizes and gets burnt till she won't be fit to wear a low dress for a month, and looks uncommonly well on it all the time.
- 1901, Mary H. Debenham, Una's friends: their holiday in fairyland
References
- antiquarianize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913