antiquitariann.
/anˌtɪkwᵻˈtɛːrɪən/, U.S. /ænˌtɪkwəˈtɛriən/ rare.
1. An advocate of treating the past as a model or guide for current practice, or following the opinions of past authorities. Usually depreciative.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > [noun] > time long past or long ago > one attached to the practices of ancient times
antiquitarian1641
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 16 I shall distinguish..the hinderers of Reformation into 3. sorts, 1 Antiquitarians (for so I had rather call them then Antiquaries, whose labours are usefull and laudable).
1849 S. Coleridge Let. 21 Sept. in Mem. & Lett. (1873) II. 260 The Antiquitarian must shew the reasonableness of his creed, if he seeks to defend it.
1991 P. R. Rao Great Indian Patriots II. ix. 47 He was no antiquitarian. He never forgot past, feared present or fought shy of future.
2. A person who studies or is interested in the past or its remains; an antiquary. Cf. antiquary n. 1a, antiquarian n. 1.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > object from the past or antique > one who is interested in
antiquary1566
antiquarian1595
philarchaist1652
man of cabinets1699
antiquitarian1720
antiquist1789
palaeophilist1822
palaeologist1828
archaista1861
palaeologian1894
1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) I. ii. xiii. 194/1 An exquisite British Antiquitarian asserts, that the Britains erected Stones for religious Worship, and that the Druids had Pillars of Stone in Veneration.
1898 Irrigation Age July 285 Faint traces of their deeds and past glories still remain to make Mexico a land of interest to the antiquitarian.
1978 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 50 104 Sir Francis Palgrave,..barrister, constitutional historian, antiquitarian, and first archivist of what is now the Public Record Office.
2002 J. M. Adovasio First Americans iv. 89 By 1806, the Dane Rasmus Nyerup, a librarian by trade and an antiquitarian by avocation, had amassed artifacts from all over Denmark.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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