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An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.

Good against burns or pyrosis. -- n.

Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature.

Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities. Warburton.

To act the part of an antiquary. [Colloq.]

Pertaining to antiquity. [R.] "Instructed by the antiquary times." Shak.

To make old, or obsolete; to make antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, 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.

Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome. For the antique world excess and pride did hate. Spenser.

In an antique manner.

The quality of being antique; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship. We may discover something venerable in the antiqueness of the work. Addison.

An antiquary; a collector of antiques. [R.] Pinkerton.

An admirer of antiquity.

The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.

Good against the rickets.

One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York. -- An`ti*rent"ism, n.

One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath.