(a.) Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature.
(n.) An antiquary.
(n.) A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ring was in the collection of the Chute family – which for generations was interested in politics, collecting, and antiquarian research – for centuries before the house came to the National Trust in the 1930s.
(2) When the rain stops, I wander on down the street and find Quagga , an antiquarian bookshop with an impressive collection of Africana.
(3) From the distance and safety of an antiquarian London library, Pakistan's ousted ruler, Pervez Musharraf , officially launched his political comeback today around a personality-driven new party, offering to be the "light in the darkness" for his long-suffering country.
(4) She has two sons, and is married to a dealer in antiquarian sheet music.
(5) The vibration theory, indeed, strongly influenced Hartley's associationist psychology and hence is of more than merely antiquarian interest.
(6) But Cumbernauld town centre’s famed “flexibility” was also its architectural downfall, as it became swamped in generic shopping boxes, obscuring its antiquarian-futurist silhouette.
(7) He should have flourished as a much-loved national figure, dividing his time among royal commissions, football and antiquarian bookshops.
(8) "I wonder what clubs can beat us for antiquarian bygone-dom in celebrating old players through song?"
(9) Concluding observations concern some of the practical problems of acquiring antiquarian books at auction.
(10) It is a deadly place, making up for what it lacks in soul and vitality with ogee curves and pop antiquarianism.
(11) Excepting a coterie of fogeyish misfits, dreamers, forelock-tugging courtiers, DIY specialists, greasy pole-climbers, short-sighted antiquarians and people who would not recognise a titanium lock-nut if one were pushed up their dado, Prince Charles attaches to architects the sort of revulsion properly due to paedophiles.
(12) The antiquarians of the 17th and 18th centuries who linked Stonehenge to the Celtic druids helped to spawn druidic orders that, by the Victorian era, allowed thousands of men to dress up in funny costumes and hold ceremonies.
(13) Tibor Ivanics is a manager at Robert Frew, an antiquarian book and print dealer a few doors down from Racine, which depends mainly on established clients, with a bit of business from tourists and locals.
(14) It performed the principles of its author: It is from Italy that we hurl at the whole world this utterly violent, inflammatory manifesto of ours, with which today we are founding "Futurism", because we wish to free our country from the stinking canker of its professors, archaeologists, tour guides and antiquarians.
(15) The sheer longevity of the survivors might suggest that these are antiquarian places, museums of a dead politics.
(16) To young people of the current generation the very idea of philology suggests something impossibly antiquarian and musty, but philology in fact is the most basic and creative of the interpretive arts.
(17) Our aim was to take the most open approach to it as possible, to find out above all why it is still considered to be such a mythical book.” Interviews with lawyers and historians, antiquarian booksellers and the actors’ own families, accompanied by archaeological-style digs everywhere from back gardens to attics, form the backbone of the play.
(18) At a local school, a visiting antiquarian, the Rev Alfred Richardson, helped him to relish archaeology with Roman remains as "hands-on history".
(19) For Best, dubstep was moving in to claim the space abandoned by rock, through its retreat during the 2000s into either antiquarian retro irrelevance or the non-visceral gentility of indie, all wordsmith craft and over-embellished arrangements.
(20) "T he book is infinitely more than an exercise in precious antiquarianism," wrote Brian Dillon in the Daily Telegraph of The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal , a book which "tells the story of 264 Japanese netsuke – small carvings made of ivory or wood" that "eventually made their way into de Waal's hands .
Antiquary
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to antiquity.
(n.) One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Darvill and Wainwright revealed today, at the Society of Antiquaries in London, that the earliest dates from 7,000 BC, and the most recent to medieval times, suggesting the site was already important 4,000 years before the oldest stone circle, and continued to draw visitors for centuries after it was believed to have been abandoned.
(2) 'Mr Stewart is a medieval antiquary interested in the anthropology of Herat'.
(3) The one with the best claim was examined at a meeting at the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1911, when it was said still to have part of a spike embedded in the bone.