different between antique vs disused

English

Alternative forms

• anticke (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æn?ti?k/
• Rhymes: -i?k

Adjective

antique (comparative antiquer, superlative antiquest)

1. Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.
2. Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
3. (typography) Designating a style of type.
4. (bookbinding) Embossed without gilt.
5. (obsolete) Synonym of antic, specifically:
   1. Fantastic, odd, wild, antic.

Synonyms

• (out of date): antiquated, disused, outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

antique (plural antiques)

1. In general, anything very old; specifically:
   2. An old object perceived as having value because of its aesthetic or historical significance.
   3. An object of ancient times.
   4. (in the singular) The style or manner of ancient times, used especially of Greek and Roman art.
   5. (figuratively, mildly derogatory) An old person.
   6. (obsolete) A man of ancient times.
2. (typography) A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.
3. (obsolete) Synonym of antic, specifically:
   1. Grotesque entertainment; an antic.
   2. A performer in an antic; or in general, a burlesque performer, a buffoon.

Synonyms

• (old person): coffin dodger, geriatric, oldster; see also Thesaurus:old person
• (man of ancient times): ancient

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

antique (third-person singular simple present antiques, present participle antiquing, simple past and past participle antiqued)

1. (intransitive) To search or shop for antiques.
2. (transitive) To make an object appear to be an antique in some way.
3. (transitive, bookbinding) To emboss without gilding.

Further reading

• antique in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• antique in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Anagrams

• quinate

French

Etymology

From Old French antique, from antic, borrowed from Latin ant?quus. Confer also the inherited Old French antive, from the Latin feminine ant?qua, which analogically influenced a masculine form antif (compare a similar occurrence in Spanish antiguo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.tik/
• Rhymes: -ik
• Rhymes: -??tik

Adjective

antique (plural antiques)

1. ancient
2. relating to the Antiquity

Derived terms

• Grèce antique
• Rome antique

Related terms

• antiquité

See also

• ancien
• vieux

Further reading

• “antique” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• taquine, taquiné

Italian

Adjective

antique

1. feminine plural of antiquo

Anagrams

• nequità

Latin

Adjective

ant?que

1. vocative masculine singular of ant?quus

References

• antique in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• antique in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• antique in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Verb

antique

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of antiquar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of antiquar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of antiquar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of antiquar

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?s?ju?zd/

Verb

disused

1. simple past tense and past participle of disuse

Adjective

disused (not comparable)

1. No longer in use.
   • 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, Chapter 14,^[1]

     But as time & experience do reforme euery thing that is amisse, so this bitter poeme called the old Comedy, being disused and taken away, the new Comedy came in place, more ciuill and pleasant a great deale and not touching any man by name, but in a certain generalitie glancing at euery abuse,

   • 1815, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering, Chapter 37,^[2]

     In Scotland the custom, now disused in England, of inviting the relations of the deceased to the interment is universally retained.

   • 1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Willowwood" in The House of Life, Stanza 2,^[3]

     And now Love sang: but his was such a song,

     So meshed with half-remembrance hard to free,

     As souls disused in death’s sterility

     May sing when the new birthday tarries long.

   • 1894, George Santayana, “On a Volume of Scholastic Philosophy” in Sonnets and Other Verses, New York: Duffield & Co., 1906, p. 55,^[4]

     The breath that stirred his lips he soon resigned

     To windy chaos, and we only find

     The garnered husks of his disusèd words.

   • 1956, Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond, New York: New York Review Books, 2003, Chapter 9, p. 72,

     […] the disused, wrecked Byzantine churches that brooded, forlorn, lovely, ravished and apostate ghosts, about the hills and shores of that lost empire.

   • 1997, Toni Morrison, Paradise, New York: Knopf, p. 172,

     All around in shadow lurked the shapes of trunks, wooden boxes, furniture, disused and broken.

Synonyms

• antiquated, defunct, outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete

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