antiquary

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AN'TIQUARY, noun [Latin antiquarius.] One who studies into the history of ancient things, as statues, coins, medals, paintings, inscriptions, books and manuscripts, or searches for them, and explains their origin and purport; one versed in antiquity.
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