[f. prec.: see -ATE.]
1. To make old, or out of date; to make obsolete; to abolish as out of date.
1596. Spenser, State of Irel., 22. Now thorough change of time [they] are cleane antiquated.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., To Reader. Every … Sciolist being at liberty, as, to antiquate and decry the old, so to coin and innovate new words.
1678. Marvell, Growth Popery, Wks. 1875, IV. 254. He [the Pope] antiquates the precepts of Christ.
1859. G. Wilson, E. Forbes, iv. (1861), 106. An abundance of quickly collected, yet trustworthy data, such as antiquated even modern text-books, with unheard-of rapidity.
2. To bring into conformity with the manner of earlier times; to make antique.
1821. Edin. Rev., XXXV. 492. Frequent and familiar contemplation of them [first sources] has kindled his imagination, and enabled him to antiquate his feelings.
1825. Scott, in Lockhart, Life, VIII. 152. To disguise and antiquate as it were their names by spelling them after some quaint manner.
