Fromantiquarian +-ist.
antiquarianist (pluralantiquarianists)
- A proponent ofantiquarianism.
1968,Religious and Theological Abstracts:As scholar he is anantiquarianist, a specialist in a particular field, and as a teacher he is concerned with his students.
1990,Jozef IJsewijn, Dirk Sacré,Companion to Neo-Latin Studies: Literary, linguistic, philological, and editorial questions,Leuven University Press, page415:[…] Angelus Politianus as being anantiquarianist according to certain critics.
1998,Thomas A. Abercrombie,Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People,University of Wisconsin Press,→ISBN, page188:Within a generation after Polo, Albornoz, and Cristóbal de Molina wrote their accounts, investigation into such things became a matter forantiquarianists: No longer performed, most such rites, especially those tied to public contexts and Inca state activities, disappeared into the past, recoverable only through the writings of those closer to the events.
1999, Margot Gayle Backus,The Gothic Family Romance,Duke University Press,→ISBN, page97:During this period, stirred by Burkean notions of the sublime, Anglo-Irishantiquarianists were fictionally re-creating the Irish past in droves.
2000, Margot Gayle,Rethinking the Foundations: Historiography in the Ancient World and in the Bible: Essays in Honour of John Van Seters,Walter de Gruyter,→ISBN, pages279–280:In a certain respect, this is a difficult question to answer, for it has now been demonstrated that the Yahwist was not only a historian but also anantiquarianist, which means that from a modern vantage point his motives as a historian were mixed.
2015 July 16, Federico Marcon,The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan,University of Chicago Press,→ISBN, page274:After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the namehonzōgaku almost disappeared. It no longer indicated a recognized field of academic study, and its use was limited to a restricted number of amateurs andantiquarianists.
antiquarianist (comparativemoreantiquarianist,superlativemostantiquarianist)
- Pertaining toantiquarianism.
1996,Digging Up Our Foremothers: Stories of Women in Africa,→ISBN, page39:Within the framework of the ideology ofantiquarianist (traditional) religion or culture, oppression is experienced sometimes as a problem, sometimes as a solution.
1999, Margot Gayle Backus,The Gothic Family Romance,Duke University Press,→ISBN, page76:The cultural life around them would have been off-limits, which might explain why toward the end of the eighteenth century some Anglo-Irish men and women “awaken[ed] a new historical consciousness” (Trumpener 24) throughantiquarianist scholarship that that (in true melancholist fashion) both preserved and mourned the folkloric traditions forbidden to them as children.
2014 July, Claudia Brosseder,The Power of Huacas: Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru,University of Texas Press,→ISBN, page192:First, Spanish and Creole scholars developed a new kind of natural philosophy and began to share the naturalist and evenantiquarianist interests of their European counterparts.
2019 November 6, Michael J. Kolb,Making Sense of Monuments: Narratives of Time, Movement, and Scale,Taylor & Francis,→ISBN:The behaviorist view has in turn spawned theantiquarianist, scientific/stylistic, and neoevolutionary approaches. Theantiquarianist stresses the formal properties of a monument—the architecture, the layout, the building material, the imagery and so forth—defining the encoded behavioral meanings intended by the architect.
