Word.ws English Dictionary

antiquarianise

antiquarianise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of antiquarianize.

Meaning of antiquarianize

Verb

antiquarianize (third-person singular simple present antiquarianizes, present participle antiquarianizing, simple past and past participle antiquarianized)

  1. (colloquial, dated, intransitive) To act the part of an antiquary.
    • 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

Forms of antiquarianise

third-person singular presentantiquarianises
present participleantiquarianising
past participleantiquarianised
pastantiquarianised

Questions about antiquarianise

What is antiquarianise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Antiquarianise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of antiquarianize.

Words near antiquarianise in the dictionary

  1. antiqua
  2. antiquackery
  3. antiquake
  4. antiquaria
  5. antiquarian
  6. antiquarianise
  7. antiquarianised
  8. antiquarianises
  9. antiquarianising
  10. antiquarianism
  11. antiquarianisms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: antiquarianise (page history and authors); antiquarianize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “antiquarianise.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/antiquarianise. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.