单词 | antiquated |
释义 | antiquatedadj. 1. a. No longer relevant or appropriate; only applicable to, or legitimate at, a time which has passed; outmoded. Chiefly depreciative. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > obsolete > unworthy of survival antiquated1587 1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. ii. 168 Were this the waye to order it better, to turne all the orders established cleane out, and to bring in new strange orders, or olde antiquated orders? 1641 R. Ward Principall Duty Parliament-men 13 These men..would rend in pieces the Tabernacle of Truth, to re-admit old and antiquated superstitions. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands I. i. 5 The world had become tired of the antiquated delusion of a papal supremacy. 1934 New Castle (Pa.) News 20 Feb. 16/3 Major Adams asserted that the modern principles of community policing are based on antiquated methods. 2000 R. A. Jones in G. Ritzer Blackwell Compan. Major Social Theorists i. vi. 227 The educational program of the seminaries was limited to meditation, pious exercises, and the rehearsal of antiquated dogma. b. No longer active or in use; disused, obsolete. ΚΠ 1623 B. Jonson in W. Shakespeare Comedies, Hist. & Trag. sig. A4v Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please; But antiquated, and deserted lye. a1695 Marquis of Halifax Coll. Poems (1705) 141 Reviving antiquated Laws. 1793 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XXXIV. 391 They..pretend that the treaty on which was founded the exclusive right of navigating the Scheldt, was antiquated and obsolete, and had become no longer binding. 1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Church (1869) i. 39 The languages by the lapse of years have become antiquated. 1930 Times 21 Mar. 10/2 They did not originate the uniform loading with ‘permalloy’, which has made all unloaded cables antiquated. 2004 F. Bergon in K. Fresonke & M. Spence Lewis & Clark ii. 44 These and other important books in the last fifty years have rendered Thwaites's scanty notations antiquated. c. Of a form or style no longer common or current; characteristic or reminiscent of a past age or time; old-fashioned. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated moth-frettenOE antiquate?a1425 antique?1532 rusty1549 moth-eaten1551 musty1575 worm-eatenc1575 overyear1584 out of date1589 old-fashioned1592 out of date1592 worm-eat1597 old-fashion1599 ancient1601 outdated1616 out-of-fashion1623 over-aged1623 superannuateda1634 thorough-old1639 overdateda1641 trunk-hosea1643 antiquitated1645 antiquated1654 out-of-fashioned1671 unmodern1731 of the old school1749 auld-farrant1750 old-fangled1764 fossila1770 fogram1772 passé1775 unmodernized1775 oxidated1791 moss-covered1792 square-toeda1797 old-fashionable1807 pigtail1817 behind the times1826 slow1827 fossilized1828 rococo1836 antiquish1838 old-timey1850 out of season1850 moss-grown1851 old style1858 antiqued1859 pigtaily1859 prehistoric1859 backdated1862 played1864 fossiled1866 bygone1869 mossy-backed1870 old-worldly1878 past-time1889 outmoded1896 dated1900 brontosaurian1909 antiquey1926 horse-and-buggy1926 vintage1928 Neolithic1934 time-warped1938 demoded1941 steam age1941 hairy1946 old school1946 rinky-dink1946 time warp1954 Palaeolithic1957 retardataire1958 throwback1968 wally1969 antwacky1975 1654 C. Wase in tr. Gratius Cynegeticon sig. C6v The subject is unfrequented, and the manner of it somewhat antiquated, but otherwise the phrase is cleare candid, and perspicuous. 1675 E. Phillips in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 359 The roughest, most unpolish't and antiquated Language. 1783 G. W. Lemon Eng. Etymol. sig. D42 Archaism..; a fondness for antient customs, antiquated phrases, obsolete words, &c. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 327 Students..in their antiquated caps and gowns. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. App. 610 The antiquated phraseology which he uses. 1920 Mich. Chimes Jan. 9/1 He pulled at the bell cord, a pleasingly antiquated contraption which dangled at the door behind which blue eyes waited. 2000 N. Kanellos Noche Buena 289 Antiquated diction and baroque poetry..has survived in this community pageant. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] oldeOE eldeda1400 antique1490 invetered1490 prisk1533 grey-headed1578 ancient1579 hoar1590 inveterated1597 antiquated1598 inveterate1598 long-dated1602 avital1611 vetust1623 old-standinga1627 grey-haired1637 superannuateda1644 avitous1731 old-established1776 venerable1792 timeworn1840 inworn1864 avitic1865 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Anticaro, settled, rooted, antiquated. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon ii. viii. 384 Declaring he was sacrific'd to the Duke's antiquated hatred to those of his Countrey. 1770 E. Burke Thoughts Present Discontents 10 The offspring of antiquated prejudices. 1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism viii. 333 Prejudice and antiquated jealousy did not freely yield themselves up. 3. a. Showing signs of great age; elderly; (also) superannuated; old and decrepit. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [adjective] > old (of beings, etc.) oldeOE winteredeOE oldlyOE over-oldOE eldernc1175 at-oldc1200 stricken on, in age, in eldec1380 oldlya1382 (well, far, etc.) stepped in age, in or into yearsc1386 ancientc1400 aged1420 well-agedc1450 ripec1480 passing oldc1485 (well) shot in years1530 old aged1535 agey1547 Ogygian1567 strucken1576 oldish1580 stricken in yearsa1586 declined1591 far1591 struck1597 Nestorian1605 overripe1605 elderly1611 eld1619 antiquated1631 enaged1631 thorough-old1639 emerita1643 grandevous1647 magnaevous1727 badgerly1753 (as) old as the hills1819 olden days1823 crusted1833 long in the tooth1841 oldened1854 mature1867 over the hill1950 1631 B. Jonson New Inne ii. v. sig. C7 What antiquated Fether's that, that talkes? 1755 Connoisseur 14 Mar. 40 A pair of antiquated lovers..with eyes sunk into their heads..and toothless gums, affecting to leer, smile, and languish at each other! 1892 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Sept. 202/2 An antiquated sleigh drawn by an antiquated horse, was seen at an early hour making its way out of the good town of Cranston. 1902 Trans. Med. Soc. N. Carolina 48 The superannuated, antiquated individual who lives upon his former reputation. 2003 M. Frank Gender, Theatre, & Origins of Crit. iii. 83 The speaker of the epilogue..deflects potential criticism by ventriloquizing it through a wrinkled, ugly antiquated lady. b. Designating a period in the (distant) past; originating or existing a long time ago; ancient, olden. Now rare. ΚΠ 1649 S. W. Constant Man’s Char. 5 I am conscious of wanting experience and learning to derive any knowledge from antiquated Times or Histories, for the fashioning this into an elegant and polite work. 1778 Theatr. Bouquet 260 Why ramble with Voltaire to Eastern climes, To Scythian lands and antiquated times? 1864 10th Ann. Rep. Superintendent Public Instr. in Docs. Assembly State of N.Y. (87th Session, Doc. No. 95) VI. 135 There are many old school-houses still remaining as literary monuments of an antiquated period. 1885 D. Douglas Ecclesiological Notes 210 There is generally by it one of those antiquated mounds already referred to. 2016 Kuwait News Agency (Nexis) 10 Mar. Contact between the island inhabitants and mainland Kuwaitis has been ongoing since antiquated times. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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