antiquest

Adjective

antique (comparative antiquer, superlative antiquest)

1. Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.
   • […] Phillip the younger issue of the king, / Coting the other hill in such arraie, / That all his guilded vpright pikes do seeme, / Streight trees of gold, the pendant leaues, / And their deuice of Antique heraldry, / Quartred in collours seeming sundy fruits, / Makes it the Orchard of the...1596, The Raigne of King Edvvard the third: […], London: Cuthbert Burby, unnumbered page
2. Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
   • Some traditions of this antiquer system may have passed into Van Eyck's method, from distemper into oil, and thence downwards, gradually more vague, into the modern process, till they at length disappeared altogether about Rubens's time.1841 July 3, “Fine Arts”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 714, London, page 509, column 3

   Synonyms:

   antiquated

3. Designating a style of type.
4. Embossed without gilt.
5. Synonym of old (“of color: subdued, as if faded over time”).

   Synonyms:

   old

6. (obsolete) Synonym of antic, specifically

   Synonyms:

   antic, specifically

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