A specialist working diligently to restore anantique mirror.
Having existed inancient times, descended fromantiquity;used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.
1596,The Raigne of King Edvvard the third:[…], London: Cuthbert Burby,unnumbered page:
[…] Phillip the younger issue of the king, / Coting the other hill in such arraie, / That all his guilded vpright pikes do seeme, / Streight trees of gold, the pendant leaues, / And their deuice ofAntique heraldry, / Quartred in collours seeming sundy fruits, / Makes it the Orchard of the Hesperides,[…]
1609, Edmund Spenser,The Faerie Qveene, Disposed Into XII. Bookes, Fashioning twelue Morall Vertues, London: Mathew Lownes, book 1, canto 11, verse 27,page51:
Not that great Champion of theantique world, / Whom famous Poets verse so much doth daunt, / And hath for twelue huge labours high extold, / So many furies and sharp fits did haunt, /[…]
1842, Elizabeth Barrett Browning,Essays on the Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets, New York: James Miller, published1863,page179:
From the rest they stand out contrastingly, as the Apollo of the later Greek sculpture-school,—too graceful for divinity and too vivacious for marble,—placed in a company of theantiquer statues with their grand blind look of the almightiness of repose.
(Originally printed in 1842 in theAthenæum.)
1851, George William Curtis,Nile Notes of a Howadji, New York: Harper & Brothers,page159:
Believe an impartial Howadji who has no Cangie or other boats to let at Mahratta, that Nubia is a very different land from Egypt, and that you have not penetratedantiquest Egypt, until you have been awe-stricken by the silence which was buried ages ago in Aboo Simbel, and by the hand-folded Osiride figures, that people, like dumb and dead Gods, that dim, demonic hall.
1841 July 3, “Fine Arts”, inThe Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number714, London,page509, column 3:
Some traditions of thisantiquer system may have passed into Van Eyck's method, from distemper into oil, and thence downwards, gradually more vague, into the modern process, till they at length disappeared altogether about Rubens's time.
1865, H. T. Sperry,Country Love vs. City Flirtation; or, Ten Chapters From the Story of a Life, New York: Carleton,page10:
A lonesome traveler might have been seen, / On the turnpike road near the village green, / In a grotesque suit of ultra-marine / And a hat broad-brimmed and conical, / Awkwardly perched in a family cart— / The veryantiquest kind / Of an umbrella arching o'er him, / A long black trunk behind / And a short white pony before him, / That ambles on with a jerk and a start, / As though it were taking an active part / In a piece of German machinery.
“There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like anantique stiletto, which[…] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom.[…]”
1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, inRailway Magazine, page459:
Lastly, I must mention the "Underground," to travel on which was, in those days, an experience to be remembered. There were theantique looking engines, and the rather grim carriages, with the fascinating indicators in the compartments to show (not always correctly!) the next station, and above all, there was the atmosphere.
1577, Richarde Eden, Richarde Willes,The History of Trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes:[…], London: Richarde Iugge,folio 31:
They supposed that they had seene those most beutyfullDryades, or the natyue nymphes or fayres of the fountaynes whereof theantiques spake so muche.
[1612], Henry Peacham,Minerva Britanna or a Garden of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impres'as of sundry natures, London,page114:
Wee eas'ly limme, some louely-Virgin face, / And can to life, a Lantscip represent, / Afford toAntiques, each his proper grace, / Or trick out this, or that compartement : /[…]
(typography) A style oftype of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.
[…] I do implore secretie, that the King would haue me present the Princesse (sweete chuck) with some delightfull ostentation, or show, or pageant, orantique, or fierworke :[…]
