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Quotation dates: 1420-1438, 1500-1600
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Antiquité, Antiquitie, n. Also: antyqwyte(y, antequite, -quatie. [ME. antiquite, -ye, etc., OF. antiquité, L. antīquitas.]
1. Ancientness; antiquity; oldness.c1420 Wynt. i. 1381 (off thare antyqwyte is lyk bot fabyll for to be); vii. 2229 (priwelagyd off antyqwyte). 1500 Edinb. B. Rec. 83 (the usis of great antiquitie). 1513 Doug. xiii. vii. 76 (the beld of my wery age and antiquyte). 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 16/33 (mony vordis of antiquite). 1589 Lanark B. Rec. 95 (to dammis the ald antiquatie thairof). 1600 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs II. 81 (the brugh being of grit antequite).
2. pl. Things, events, etc., pertaining or belonging to ancient times; ancient matters.c1420 Wynt. i. 6 (off swylk antyqwyteys gest or story for to wryte). ?1438 Alex. ii. 56 (to ane tempill of antiquiteis). c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1243 (gret clerkis of antiquiteis). a1578 Pitsc. I. 61/9 (curieous of auld antiquitieis).
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