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antiquarianize

antiquarianize verb: to act the part of an antiquary.

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 antiquarianize

third-person singular presentantiquarianizes
present participleantiquarianizing
past participleantiquarianized
pastantiquarianized
alternative formantiquarianise

Origin of antiquarianize

From antiquarian + -ize.

Questions about antiquarianize

What does antiquarianize mean?
Antiquarianize means to act the part of an antiquary.
What part of speech is antiquarianize?
Antiquarianize is a verb.
What is the past tense of antiquarianize?
The past tense of antiquarianize is antiquarianized.

Words near antiquarianize in the dictionary

  1. antiquarianising
  2. antiquarianism
  3. antiquarianisms
  4. antiquarianist
  5. antiquarianists
  6. antiquarianize
  7. antiquarianized
  8. antiquarianizes
  9. antiquarianizing
  10. antiquarianly
  11. antiquarians

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