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

t addict their minds to speculations. Adventurer. His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity. Fuller. A man gross . . . and addicted to low company. Macaulay.

The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.

Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West.

Age; antiquity. [Obs.] Martin.

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

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

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.

An admirer of antiquity.

A description of, or a treatise on, antiquity or antiquities.

Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.

Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness. A select vocabulary corresponding (in point of archaism and remoteness from ordinary use) to our Scriptural vocabulary. De Quincey.

A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail.

imes, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.

Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken. [Obs.] A weak and awful reverence for antiquity. I. Watts.

ious at first, or would otherwise be concealed. All the names in the country betray great antiquity. Bryant.

A barbarous sport, of great antiquity, in which men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, -- still popular in Spain. -- Bull"fight`er (, n.

A large indefinite quantity. [Colloq.] The worthies of antiquity bought the rarest pictures with bushels of gold, without counting the weight or the number of the pieces. Dryden.

y belonged to the deposit in which it was found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type.

To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets. Like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron. Glanvill. "Charge for the guns!" he said. Tennyson.