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Definition of Anticks
1. antick [v] - See also: antick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticks
Literary usage of Anticks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of Samuel Breck: With Passages from His Notebooks (1771-1862) by Samuel Breck, Horace Elisha Scudder (1877)
"anticks.—The Whipping-Post.—The Breck Mansion.—La Fayette at Town Meeting.—Lively
Antics on High Buildings.—A Naval Encounter in Boston Harbor. ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1838)
"... anticks, images, as Ovid's house of Sleep, Psyches palace in Apuleius, &c.
In men it is subject and governed by reason, or at least should be ; but, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"Shakespeare has the verb to antick, to make anticks, ... Actors are frequently
termed anticks, as in the Nomenclátor, p. 530. The ancient sculpture and ..."
4. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner (1864)
"4d., for the crown that stood on the anticks, for gilding the anticks, &c.
Carpenter's wages, 3/. 4«. Painter's wages, 8/. Purple satin bought at the Horse ..."
5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"Shakespeare has the verb to antick, to make anticks, ... Actors are frequently
termed anticks, as in the Nomenclátor, p. 530. ..."
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