What is another word for antiquary?

Pronunciation: [ˈantɪkwəɹi] (IPA)

When it comes to synonyms for the word "antiquary", there are a plethora of options to choose from. Some of the most common options for this term include antiquarian, collector, historian, connoisseur, archivist, curator, and preservationist. Each of these terms describes a person who has a deep interest in preserving and studying ancient artifacts, whether for personal reasons or for the benefit of others. Whether you're a history buff, a collector, or simply someone who appreciates the value of preserving the past, there is bound to be a synonym for "antiquary" that perfectly captures your passion.

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Usage examples for Antiquary

What d'you say to 'The antiquary,' eh?
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
With all his quaint and curious learning, he has nothing of arrogance or pedantry; but that unaffected earnestness and guileless simplicity which seem to belong to the literary antiquary.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
No part of this fortification is wholly obliterated, though, in many places, it is nearly levelled by modern cultivation, that dreadful enemy to the antiquary.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton

Famous quotes with Antiquary

  • n a word, this new office of Imperator was nothing else than the primitive regal office re-established; for it was those very restrictions--as respected the temporal and local limitation of power, the collegiate arrangement, and the cooperation of the senate or the community that was necessary for certain cases-- which distinguished the consul from the king.(17) There is hardly a trait of the new monarchy which was not found in the old: the union of the supreme military, judicial, and administrative authority in the hands of the prince; a religious presidency over the commonwealth; the right of issuing ordinances with binding power; the reduction of the senate to a council of state; the revival of the patriciate and of the praefecture of the city. But still more striking than these analogies is the internal similarity of the monarchy of Servius Tullius and the monarchy of Caesar; if those old kings of Rome with all their plenitude of power had yet been rulers of a free community and themselves the protectors of the commons against the nobility, Caesar too had not come to destroy liberty but to fulfil it, and primarily to break the intolerable yoke of the aristocracy. Nor need it surprise us that Caesar, anything but a political antiquary, went back five hundred years to find the model for his new state; for, seeing that the highest office of the Roman commonwealth had remained at all times a kingship restricted by a number of special laws, the idea of the regal office itself had by no means become obsolete. At very various periods and from very different sides-- in the decemviral power, in the Sullan regency, and in Caesar's own dictatorship--there had been during the republic a practical recurrence to it; indeed by a certain logical necessity, whenever an exceptional power seemed requisite there emerged, in contradistinction to the usual limited -imperium-, the unlimited -imperium- which was simply nothing else than the regal power.
    Theodor Mommsen
  • Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would trulier express our central and wide-related nature, instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to which we have too long lent our eyes. Already that day exists for us, shines in on us at unawares, but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature. The idiot, the Indian, the child, and unschooled farmer's boy, stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Scottish literature begins effectively with Archdeacon Barbour's some sixty years after Bannockburn, and to the and Blind Harry's (so staunch is the Scot, and such an antiquary in grain) must be attributed much of the colouring and subsequent tone of Scottish sentiment. The is the better poem, simple, truthful, noble, stirring, a proper start for the literature of a fighting people.
    John Barbour

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