Antiquate
['æntɪkweɪt] or ['æntə,kwet]
Definition
(v. t.) To make old, or obsolete; to make antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, to make void, or abrogate.
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Examples
- Prussianized Germany was at once the newest and the most antiquated thing in Western Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Vows, said the Abbot, must be unloosed, worthy Franklin, or permit me rather to say, worthy Thane, though the title is antiquated. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It was another huge medley of contingents, and it relied for its chief force upon that now antiquated weapon, the war chariot. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the use of antiquated machinery is not followed by those who lead the procession in this industrial age. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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