Pa. t. anticked, -ickt. [f. prec. adj. and sb.; cf. to caper and capers.]
† 1. trans. To make antic or grotesque. Obs.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., II. vii. 132. The wilde disguise hath almost Antickt vs all.
2. intr. To perform antics, act as an antic. Also in phr. To antic it.
1589. Nashe, in Greene, Menaph., Ded. (Arb.), 17. They might have antickt it … up and downe the countrey with the King of Fairies.
1606. Warner, Alb. Eng., XIV. xci. 367. Now Pincht they him, antickt about, and on, and off him lept.
1822. B. Cornwall, Flood of Thessaly, II. 353. So, ere it slumber’d in entire repose, Antick’d the Ocean.
1829. Hood, Epping Hunt, lxxiv. Some rolled about, And anticked as they rode.
1879. G. Meredith, Egoist, Prel. 7. Until he begins insensibly to frolic and antic, unknown to himself.
