The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antiquary \An"ti*qua*ry\, n.; pl. Antiquaries. 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.
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n. (plural of antiquary English)
Usage examples of "antiquaries".
That all the accounts of such emigrations, which have been asserted or received, by Irish bards, Scotch historians, or English antiquaries, (Buchanan, Camden, Usher, Stillingfleet, &c.
This curious passage has escaped the diligence of our British antiquaries.
Claudian is not prepared for the strict examination of our antiquaries.
Yet our modern historians and antiquaries extend the term of their dominion.
Muller and Lachman, and a whole host of German critics and antiquaries.
The more pious antiquaries labor to reconcile the promises and threats of the author of the Revelations with the present state of the seven cities.
The curious antiquaries, who have computed the numbers and seats, are disposed to believe, that above the upper row of stone steps the amphitheatre was encircled and elevated with several stages of wooden galleries, which were repeatedly consumed by fire, and restored by the emperors.
This gentleman of the Antiquaries is the very man whom your father defended so nobly on the battlefield.
The curious antiquaries, who have computed the numbers and seats, are disposed to believe, that above the upper row of stone steps the amphitheatre was encircled and elevated with several stages of wooden galleries, which were repeatedly consumed by fire, and restored by the emperors.
Claudian is not prepared for the strict examination of our antiquaries.
Yet our modern historians and antiquaries extend the term of their dominion.
This curious passage has escaped the diligence of our British antiquaries.
And antiquaries, who resolve taste to a trade, have turned the patron to the professor, and still (though the error is now acknowledged) they style in custom, as they first named in mistake, the disburied house of the Athenian Glaucus ‘THE HOUSE OF THE DRAMATIC POET’.
This room is usually termed by the antiquaries of Naples ‘The Chamber of Leda’.
A secret chamber in the rock behind it was discovered some time ago, which contained a sword of exquisite workmanship, and some quaint old armor of a fashion that antiquaries are not acquainted with, though it is supposed to be Roman.