antiquarianize

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

antiquarian + -ize

Verb

antiquarianize (third-person singular simple present antiquarianizes, present participle antiquarianizing, simple past and past participle antiquarianized)

  1. (colloquial, dated, intransitive) To act the part of an antiquary.
    • 1901, Mary H. Debenham, Una's friends: their holiday in fairyland:
      She talks to old women, and tracks rare flowers, and sketches and photographs and geologizes and antiquarianizes and gets burnt till she won't be fit to wear a low dress for a month, and looks uncommonly well on it all the time.

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