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/ˈæntəkwˌeɪtəd/ /ˈæntəkwˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

Antiquated

adjective

So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period. Synonyms: antediluvian, archaic. "Antediluvian ideas" , "Archaic laws"

Antiquate

verb

Make obsolete or old-fashioned.

Give an antique appearance to. Synonym: antique.

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... reproaches Strauss with being too negative, and with having broken with Christianity. The object to be pursued, according to him, should be the freeing of religion from the mythological element, and the substitution of another point of view for the antiquated dualism of orthodoxy—this other point of view to be the victory over the world, produced by the sense ...

— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... to some of the antiquated remedies of our world as related by Geike and copied from a medical journal of our own ...

— Life in a Thousand Worlds • William Shuler Harris

... tenement house on Madison Street to the cloak and suit district, at Nineteenth Street and Fifth Avenue, is less than two miles as the crow flies, but Morris Perlmutter's journey uptown was accomplished in less direct fashion. He spent over half an hour in an antiquated horse car and by the time the Broadway car to which he transferred had reached Madison Square it was nearly twelve o'clock. As he walked down Nineteenth Street he almost collided with Abe, whose face ...

— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass

... time, both p 12 by the improvement in the instruments used, and by the consequent expansion of the field of view opened to rational observation, and that those scientific works which have, to use a common expression, become 'antiquated' by the acquisition of new funds of knowledge, are thus continually being consigned to oblivion as unreadable. However discouraging such a prospect must be, no one who is animated by a genuine love of nature, and by a sense of the dignity ...

— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt

... 'cello, op. 3, was composed in 1829, while Chopin was on a visit to Prince Radziwill. It is preceded by an introduction, and is dedicated to Joseph Merk, the 'cellist. Chopin himself pronounced it a brilliant salon piece. It is now not even that, for it sounds antiquated and threadbare. The passage work at times smacks of Chopin and Weber—a hint of the Mouvement Perpetuel—and the 'cello has the better of the bargain. Evidently written for my ...

— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker

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