LekhoriLekhoriHaving 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 Hesperides, […]
Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.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.
Designating a style of type.
In general, anything very old; specifically:
A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.
Synonym of antic, specifically:
[…] I do implore secretie, that the King would haue me present the Princesse (sweete chuck) with some delightfull ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antique, or fierworke : […]
To search or shop for antiques.
Once our daughter-in-love, Janis, went antiquing with us because she and our firstborn, Matthew, were in the market for some bedroom furniture.
To make (an object) appear to be an antique in some way.
A province of Western Visayas, Visayas, Philippines. Capital: San Jose de Buenavista.
Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.
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To emboss without gilding.