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The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent. [Obs.] Bp. Barlow.

nce, to make void, or abrogate. Christianity might reasonably introduce new laws, and antiquate or abrogate old one. Sir M. Hale.

Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott.

Quality of being antiquated.

Antiquatedness. [Obs.]

The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont.

To approach. [Archaic] Ld. Lytton.

A drawing nigh; approach. [R.] Bp. Hall.

ater growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.

Aquatic. [R.]

Inhabiting the water. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A kind of etching in which spaces are bitten by the use of aqua fortis, by which an effect is produced resembling a drawing in water colors or India ink; also, the engraving produced by this method.

Shaped like a bow; arcuate; curved. [R.]

Squatting.

ange from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt. [Obs.] The ore of it is colliquated by the violence of the fire. Boyle. [Ice] will colliquate in water or warm oil. Sir T. Browne.

and ashes are well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call "glass". Boyle.

Causing rapid waste or exhaustion; melting; as, collequative sweats.

See Kumquat.

cause to melt away; to dissolve; to consume; to waste. [Obs.] Dilapidating, or rather deliquating, his bishopric. Fuller.

A melting. [Obs.]