Antiquarist

Quick meaning: Antiquarist is a noun meaning Synonym of antiquarian.

Meaning

Synonym of antiquarian.

Example Sentences

The delight of the antiquariſt (ſays Mr Pinkerton) may be called a depraved appetite of the mind, which feeds on traſh, and fills itſelf with emptineſs.

The antiquarists, on the contrary, declare that such interpretations are illegitimate, distort the meaning of the text, bring in it concepts and methods alien to it.

So in degrees of learning, he that cannot write might yet, perhaps, indite well; he that is no rhetorician might yet be a grammarian; he that is no poet might yet be a linguist; he that is no divine might yet be antiquarist or chronicler.

Our Antiquariſts ſay, that he vvent aftervvards to Ægypt, and having Married the Kings Daughter, and vvas expelled by the Ægyptians, after the departure of Moſes (by reaſon of the great hatred they bore to all Strangers for the Hebrevvs ſake)

Word Forms

• antiquarists

Synonyms for antiquarist

Depending on context, synonyms include antiquarian.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include antiquarism, antiquist, antiquitarian, antiquitary, antiquary, antiquarian.

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