ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED; replacing as pple. and adj. ANTIQUATE a.]
1. Grown old, of long standing, inveterate.
1670. Cotton, Espernon, II. VIII. 384. Declaring he was sacrific’d to the Duke’s antiquated hatred to those of his Countrey.
1770. Burke, Pres. Discont., Wks. II. 229. The offspring of antiquated prejudices.
1833. I. Taylor, Fanat., viii. 333. Prejudice and antiquated jealousy did not freely yield themselves up.
2. Out of use by reason of age; obsolete.
1623. B. Jonson, in Shaks. C. Praise, 149. Neat Terence, witty Plautus now not please; But antiquated and deserted lye.
a. 1695. Mrq. Halifax, in Coll. Poems (1705), 141. Reviving antiquated Laws.
1861. Stanley, East. Ch., i. (1869), 39. The languages by the lapse of years have become antiquated.
3. So old as to be unworthy to survive; obsolescent. (Often contemptuously = ‘old-world.’)
1692. Bentley, Boyle Lect., iii. 106. Deride and explode the antiquated Folly.
1741. Richardson, Pamela (1824), I. xxvi. 41. No more, no more, said he, of these antiquated topics.
1860. Motley, Netherl., I. i. 5. The world had become tired of the antiquated delusion of a papal supremacy.
4. Old-fashioned, whether as surviving from, or as imitating, earlier usage.
1675. E. Phillips, in Shaks. C. Praise, 359. The roughest, most unpolish’t and antiquated Language.
1734. J. Richardson, in Birch, Milton’s Wks., 1738, I. 50. His antiquated Words were his Choice, not his Necessity.
1824. W. Irving, T. Trav., I. 327. Students … in their antiquated caps and gowns.
1867. Freeman, Norm. Conq., I. App. 610. The antiquated phraseology which he uses.
5. Of persons: Advanced in age, incapacitated by age, superannuated. Also fig.
1678. C. Hatton, in Hatton Corr. (1878), I. 164. Twisden was quite antiquated, and Wild very infirme.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 7, ¶ 4. A maiden Aunt … one of these Antiquated Sybils.
1802. Wordsw., Sonn. Liberty, I. iii. The antiquated Earth, as one might say, Beat like the heart of Man.
