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ANTIQUATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
Example:
archaic laws
Synonyms:
antediluvian; antiquated; archaic
Classified under:
Similar:
old (of long duration; not new)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb antiquate
Context examples:
Antiquated term describing follicular (nodular) or diffuse non-Hodgkin's lymphomas that are composed of a mixture of large cells: large cleaved cells, with irregular nuclei without visible nucleoli; and large non-cleaved cells (centroblasts), having a rounder nucleus with two to three small, peripherally placed nucleoli and a small amount of basophilic cytoplasm.
(Malignant Lymphoma, Large Cell, Cleaved and Non-Cleaved, NCI Thesaurus)
The furniture once appropriated to the lower apartments had from time to time been removed here, as fashions changed: and the imperfect light entering by their narrow casement showed bedsteads of a hundred years old; chests in oak or walnut, looking, with their strange carvings of palm branches and cherubs' heads, like types of the Hebrew ark; rows of venerable chairs, high-backed and narrow; stools still more antiquated, on whose cushioned tops were yet apparent traces of half-effaced embroideries, wrought by fingers that for two generations had been coffin-dust.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
