Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AN'TI-QUA-RY
AN-TI-QUA'RI-AN-ISMAN'TI-QUATE
AN'TI-QUA-RY, n. [L. antiquarius.]
One who studies into the history of ancient things, as statues, coins, medals, paintings, inscriptions, books anti manuscripts, or searches for them, and explains their origin and purport; one versed in antiquity.
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