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antiquated, ppl. a.|ˈæntɪkweɪtɪd|
[f. prec. + -ed; replacing as pple. and adj. antiquate a.]
1. Grown old, of long standing, inveterate.
1670Cotton Espernon ii. viii. 384 Declaring he was sacrific'd to the Duke's antiquated hatred to those of his Countrey. 1770Burke Pres. Discont. Wks. II. 229 The offspring of antiquated prejudices. 1833I. Taylor Fanat. viii. 333 Prejudice and antiquated jealousy did not freely yield themselves up.
2. Out of use by reason of age; obsolete.
1623B. Jonson in Shaks. C. Praise 149 Neat Terence, witty Plautus now not please; But antiquated and deserted lye. a1695Marquis of Halifax in Coll. Poems (1705) 141 Reviving antiquated Laws. 1861Stanley East. Ch. i. (1869) 39 The languages by the lapse of years have become antiquated.
3. So old as to be unworthy to survive; obsolescent. (Often contemptuously = ‘old-world.’)
1692Bentley Boyle Lect. iii. 106 Deride and explode the antiquated Folly. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. xxvi. 41 No more, no more, said he, of these antiquated topics. 1860Motley Netherl. I. i. 5 The world had become tired of the antiquated delusion of a papal supremacy.
4. Old-fashioned, whether as surviving from, or as imitating, earlier usage.
1675E. Phillips in Shaks. C. Praise 359 The roughest, most unpolish't and antiquated Language. 1734J. Richardson in Birch Milton's Wks. 1738 I. 50 His antiquated Words were his Choice, not his Necessity. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 327 Students..in their antiquated caps and gowns. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. I. App. 610 The antiquated phraseology which he uses.
5. Of persons: Advanced in age, incapacitated by age, superannuated. Also fig.
1678C. Hatton in Hatton Corr. (1878) I. 164 Twisden was quite antiquated, and Wild very infirme. 1711Addison Spect. No. 7 ⁋4 A maiden Aunt..one of these Antiquated Sybils. 1802Wordsw. Sonn. Liberty i. iii, The antiquated Earth, as one might say, Beat like the heart of Man. |