antiquify

From antique +‎ -ify.

antiquify (third-person singular simple present antiquifies, present participle antiquifying, simple past and past participle antiquified)

1. To give the appearance of being an antique.
   • 1849, Adam Stark, The Visitor’s Pocket Guide to Gainsburgh and Its Neighbourhood, , Gainsburgh: J. F. W. Bowden, page 116:

     Within these few years Sir Charles has antiquified the Hall, if such a word may be admitted, so that its pointed gable ends, and Elizabethan appearance, render it somewhat an object of curiosity.

   • 1875, Archibald Billing, The Science of Gems, Jewels, Coins, and Medals, Ancient and Modern, new edition, London: Daldy, Isbister, & Co., ; J. Mitchell, , “Forgeries of Antiques”, page 81:

     But the engraver, it would seem, thought it a pity that the other portion of such a fine stone should be left unemployed; so he made that into another antique fragment, with another subject; that is to say, the head, neck, and fore-quarter of a lion (118) passant, very well engraved; not a modern heraldic lion passant, but a real grumpy-looking lion, from an arena, perhaps, of the Coliseum—it would pass for the fore-part of the group of Cybele riding on a Lion, which is a common antique subject (119); this fragment he antiquified more than the other; for whereas the one with the sacrifice is smooth on the back, the other with the lion has been much scratched.

   • 1921, Ameen Rihani, The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West, New York: James T. White & Co., page 195:

     I spoke with him afterwards and he admitted to me—told me the other half of the truth—that the European who sold him the antiquified coins taught him also the trick.

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