antiquify

present singular third person antiquifies · participle present antiquifying · participle past antiquified · past antiquified

1. To give the appearance of being an antique.

   I spoke with him afterwards and he admitted to me—told me the other half of the truth—that the European who sold him the antiquified coins taught him also the trick.

   1921, Ameen Rihani, The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West, New York: James T. White & Co., page 195

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   Within these few years Sir Charles has antiquified the Hall, if such a word may be admitted, so that its pointed gable ends, and Elizabethan appearance, render it somewhat an object of curiosity.

   1849, Adam Stark, The Visitor’s Pocket Guide to Gainsburgh and Its Neighbourhood, […], Gainsburgh: J. F. W. Bowden, page 116

   But the engraver, it would seem, thought it a pity that the other portion of such a fine stone should be left unemployed; so he made that into another antique fragment, with another subject; that is to say, the head, neck, and fore-quarter of a lion (118) passant, very well engraved; not a modern heraldic lion passant, but a real grumpy-looking lion, from an arena, perhaps, of the Coliseum—it would pass for the fore-part of the group of Cybele riding on a Lion, which is a common antique subject (119); this fragment he antiquified more than the other; for whereas the one with the sacrifice is smooth on the back, the other with the lion has been much scratched.

   1875, Archibald Billing, The Science of Gems, Jewels, Coins, and Medals, Ancient and Modern, new edition, London: Daldy, Isbister, & Co., […]; J. Mitchell, […], “Forgeries of Antiques”, page 81