antiquarianize

English

Alternative forms

• antiquarianise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From 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.

References

• “antiquarianize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.