antiquarianize
English
editAlternative forms
edit- antiquarianise (non-Oxford British spelling)
Etymology
editFrom antiquarian + -ize.
Verb
editantiquarianize (third-person singular simple present antiquarianizes, present participle antiquarianizing, simple past and past participle antiquarianized)
- (colloquial, dated, intransitive) To act the part of an antiquary.
- 1901, Mary H. Debenham, Una's friends: their holiday in fairyland:
- She talks to old women, and tracks rare flowers, and sketches and photographs and geologizes and antiquarianizes and gets burnt till she won't be fit to wear a low dress for a month, and looks uncommonly well on it all the time.
References
edit- “antiquarianize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.