Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Antique (-r)
antique (-r), adj. [L. antīqu-us former, earlier, ancient.] (webplay: ancient, old, time).
- Quaint; curious; anachronistic; strange; peculiar because of age.
- Obsolete; passé; out-dated; out-moded.
- Primeval; archaic; antediluvian; patriarchal; ancestral; from an earlier time.
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