Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AN'TIC
AN'TIC, n.
- A buffoon or merry Andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations. – Shak.
- Odd appearance; fanciful figure. – Spenser.
- In architecture, sculpture and painting, such pieces as were made by the ancients; usually written antique, and pronounced anteek, but without any good reason.
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