[ad. L. antīquātiōn-em, n. of action f. antīquā-re: see ANTIQUATE.]
1. The action of making antiquated, out of date, or obsolete; abolition, abrogation.
a. 1643. W. Cartwright, To Queen, 9 (R.).
| You bring forth now, great Queen, as you fore-saw | |
| An Antiquation of the Salique Law. |
1828. Syd. Smith, Wks. (1867), II. 245. This silent antiquation of doctrines.
2. The production of an appearance of age.
1862. Sat. Rev., XIV. 476/2. A free use of acids and other tricks of ‘antiquation’—as the artificial simulation of the appearance of age began to be called—enabled an artist to produce a work scarcely distinguishable from an original window.
3. The state of being antiquated; antiquatedness; obsoleteness.
1659. Hardy, 1 John (1865), xxviii. 177/2. To take new not in opposition to antiquity, but antiquation.
1862. Spectator, 29 March, 354/1. Chaucer … would, in point of antiquation, be just as distant from the present language.
