Read full poem →Wallis Budge, Litt.D., M.A., _Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian
Antiquities_; of Mr. Leonard W. King, M.A., of the same department; and
of Mr. George F. Barwick, _Superintendent of the Reading Room_.
Dictionary Entry
Ancient times; faraway history; former ages
In a Sentence
“Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. antiquitiesact antiquitiesauthority antiquitiesantiquities romanantiquities egyptianantiquities jewishantiquities popular
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Poetry examples for “antiquities”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →On Captain Grose's Peregrination through Scotland, collecting the
Antiquities of that kingdom
Read full poem →and, therefore, Roscommon, when he left Caen, travelled into Italy, and
amused himself with its antiquities, and, particularly, with medals, in
which he acquired uncommon skill. At the restoration, with the other
Read full poem →have am a fled immenfe fortunes, few have ap-
plied themfelves- to the ftudy of the antiquities
of that country, formerly more famous for its
Read full poem →that this line is "literally translated from the Latin prose of
Bartholinus in his Danish Antiquities."
Read full poem →An interesting account of Piel Castle will be found in Hearne and
Byrne's 'Antiquities'. It was built by the Abbot of Furness in the first
year of the reign of Edward III.--Ed.