antique

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   out of fashion

   a suit of rather antique appearance

2. 2
   adj

   made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age

   the beautiful antique French furniture

3. 3
   verb

   to give an antique appearance to

   I antiqued the furniture to increase its value.

4. 4
   verb

   to shop for antiques

   The couple went antiquing since they disliked new household decorations.

5. 5
   adj

   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 Hesperides, […]

6. 6
   adj

   Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.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.

7. 7
   noun

   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 : […]

8. 8
   verb

   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.

Etymology

Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.