Antiquarius, adiect. vnde Antiquarij homines dicti sunt. Suet. Men curious in vsing olde and auntient wordes.Antiquarius. luuenal. A searcher of antiquities, or reader of olde workes.
Antíquo, antíquas, pen. prod. antiquâre. Cic.To make voyde: to reduce to the first estate: to repell: to abrogate: to abolish: to put out of memory.Legem antiquare.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
antīquārĭus, a, um, adj. [antiquus], pertaining to antiquity.I.Adj.: ars,
the art of reading and copying ancient MSS
., Hier. Ep. ad Flor. 5, 1.—Hence, II.Subst.: antīquārĭus, ii, m.A.One that is fond of or employs himself about antiquities, an antiquarian, antiquary (post-Aug.): nec quemquam adeo antiquarium puto, ut, etc., Tac. Or. 21; Suet. Aug. 86.—Also antī-quārĭa, ae, f., she that is fond of antiquity, a female antiquarian, Juv. 6, 454.— B.One that understands reading and copying ancient MSS., Cod. Th. 4, 8, 2; Aus. Ep. 16 al.
antīquo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [antiquus; cf.: veto, vetus]. I. In class. Lat. only a t. t. of civil life, to leave it in its ancient state, to restore a thing to its former condition (antiquare est in modum pristinum reducere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 26 Müll.).—Hence of a bill, to reject it, not to adopt it: legem agrariam antiquari facile passus est, Cic. Off. 2, 21, 73; so Liv. 4, 58; 5, 30, 55 et saep.: Piso operam dat, ut ea rogatio antiquetur, Cic. Att. 1, 13; cf. id. ib. 1, 14; Liv. 31, 6; cf. id. 45, 35; 6, 39; 6, 40: legem antiquāstis, Cic. Leg. 3, 17, 38 (cf. the letter A, abbrev.): plebiscitum primus antiquo abrogoque, Liv. 22, 30.—II. In eccl. Lat., to make old: Dicendo novum, veteravit prius; quod autem antiquatur prope interitum est, Vulg. Heb. 8, 13.