KJV Dictionary Definition: antiquate

antiquate

AN'TIQUATE, v.t. L. antiquo. See Antiquary.

To make old, or obsolete; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use. Hence, when applied to laws or customs, it amounts to make void or abrogate.

Christianity might reasonably introduce new laws and antiquate or abrogate old ones.

antiquated

AN'TIQUATED, pp. Grown old; obsolete; out of use; having lost its binding force by non-observance; as an antiquated law.

antiquation

ANTIQUA'TION, n. The state of being antiquated.

antique

ANTIQUE, a. antee'k. L. antiquus, probably from ante.

1. Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; in this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome; as an antique statue.

2. Old, as it respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion, as an antique robe.

3. Odd; wild; fanciful; more generally written antic.

ANTIQUE, n. antee'k. In general, any thing very old; but in a more limited sense, the remains of ancient artists, as busts, statues, paintings and vases, the works of Grecian and Roman antiquity.

antiqueness

ANTIQUENESS, n. antee'kness. The quality of being ancient; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship.

antiquity

ANTIQ'UITY, n. L. antiquitas.

1. Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; a very indefinite term; as, Cicero was the most eloquent orator of antiquity.

2. The ancients; the people of ancient times; as, the fact is admitted by all antiquity.

Meaning that mankind are inclined to verify the predictions of antiquity.

3. Ancientness; great age; the quality of being ancient; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.

4. Old age; a ludicrous sense used by Shak.

5. The remains of ancient times. In this sense it is usually or always plural. Antiquities comprehend all the remains of ancient times; all the monuments, coins, inscriptions, edifices, history and fragments of literature, offices, habiliments, weapons, manners, ceremonies; in short, whatever respects any of the ancient nations of the earth.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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