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An*tique"ly, adv. In an antique manner.

An*tique"ness, n. 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"ti*quist (&?;), n. An antiquary; a collector of antiques. [R.] Pinkerton.

An*tiq`ui*ta"ri*an (&?;), n. An admirer of antiquity. [Used by Milton in a disparaging sense.] [Obs.]

An*tiq"ui*ty (&?;), n.; pl. Antiquities (&?;). [L. antiquitas, fr. antiquus: cf. F. antiquité. See Antique.] 1. The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.

2. Old age. [Obs.]

It not your voice broken? . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity? Shak.

3. Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.

4. The ancients; the people of ancient times.

That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity has &?;vowed. Sir W. Raleigh.

5. An old gentleman. [Obs.]

You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench. B. Jonson.

6. A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. [In this sense, usually in the plural.] "Heathen antiquities." Bacon.

An`ti*ra*chit"ic (&?;), a. (Med.) Good against the rickets.

An`ti*rent"er (&?;), n. 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.

An`ti*sab`ba*ta"ri*an (&?;), n. (Eccl.) One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath.

An`ti*sac`er*do"tal (&?;), a. Hostile to priests or the priesthood. Waterland.

{ An*tis"cians (&?;), ||An*tis"ci*i (&?;), } n. pl. [L. antiscii, Gr. &?;, pl.; &?; against + &?; shadow.] The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions.

The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians. Brande & C.

{ An`ti*sco*let"ic (&?;), An`ti*scol"ic (&?;), } a. [Pref. anti- + Gr. &?; a worm.] (Med.) Anthelmintic.

An`ti*scor*bu"tic (&?;), a. (Med.) Counteracting scurvy. -- n. A remedy for scurvy.

An`ti*scor*bu"tic*al (&?;), a. (Med.) Antiscorbutic.

An`ti*scrip"tur*al (&?;), a. Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures.

An`ti*sep"al*ous (&?;), a. [Pref. anti- + sepal.] (Bot.) Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf.

{ An`ti*sep"tic (&?;), An`ti*sep"tic*al (&?;), } a. Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive.

Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

An`ti*sep"tic, n. A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.