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▪ I. antic, a. and n.|ˈæntɪk|
Forms: 6–7 antike, -cke, 7–8 -ick, (7 antique), 6– antic.
[app. ad. It. antico, but used as equivalent to It. grottesco, f. grotta, ‘a cauerne or hole vnder grounde’ (Florio), orig. applied to fantastic representations of human, animal, and floral forms, incongruously running into one another, found in exhuming some ancient remains (as the Baths of Titus) in Rome, whence extended to anything similarly incongruous or bizarre: see grotesque. Cf. Serlio Architettura (Venice 1551) iv. lf. 70 a: ‘seguitare le uestigie de gli antiqui Romani, li quali costumarono di far..diuerse bizarrie, che si dicono grottesche.’ Apparently, from this ascription of grotesque work to the ancients, it was in English at first called antike, anticke, the name grotesco, grotesque, not being adopted till a century later. Antic was thus not developed in Eng. from antique, but was a distinct use of the word from its first introduction. Yet in 17th c. it was occas. written antique, a spelling proper to the other word.]
A. adj.
1. Arch. and Decorative Art. Grotesque, in composition or shape; grouped or figured with fantastic incongruity; bizarre.
1548Hall Chron. Hen. VIII an. 12 (R.) A fountayne of embowed woorke..ingrayled with anticke woorkes. 1589Hawkins' 2nd Voy. in Arber Eng. Garner V. 126 To paint their bodies with curious knots or antike work, as every man, in his own fancy deviseth. 1598Florio, Grottesca, a kind of rugged vnpolished painters worke, anticke work. 1603― Montaigne i. xxvii. (1632) 89 All void places..he filleth up with antike Boscage or Grotesko workes. 1623Cockeram Anticke Worke, a worke in painting or caruing of diuers shapes of Beasts, Birds, Flowers, etc., vnperfectly mixt, and made one of another. 1624Wotton Archit. 97 Whether Grotesca (as the Italians) or Antique worke (as wee call it) should be receiued. 1703City & Country Build. 5 Antick, or Antique-work..a confused Composure of Figures of different Natures, and Sexes, etc. As of Men, Beasts, Birds, Flowers, Fishes, etc. And such like Fancies as are not in Rerum Natura... This Work which we call Antick, the Italians call Grotesca..and the French Grotesque. 1826J. Elmes Dict. Fine Arts, Antick, Odd, ridiculously wild.
2. Absurd from fantastic incongruity; grotesque, bizarre, uncouthly ludicrous:
a. in gesture.
1590Marlowe Edw. II, i. i. 167 My men, like satyrs,..Shall with their goat-feet dance the antic hay. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. v. 172 How strange or odde so ere I beare myselfe..To put an Anticke disposition on. 1603Drayton Her. Epist. xi. 13 A Satyres Anticke parts he play'd. 1645Milton Colast. Wks. 1851, 365 No antic hobnaile at a Morris, but is more hansomly facetious. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. iii. ix. 77 Their religious Rites and Ceremonies being uncouth and antick. 1719De Foe Crusoe 183 He came running to me..making a many antic gestures. 1805Wordsworth Prel. vii. (1850) 178 An antic pair Of monkeys on his back. 1878G. Macdonald Phantastes x. 149 Performing the most antic homage.
b. in shape.
1642R. Carpenter Exper. iii. v. 53 To appeare in strange and antick shapes. 1788New Lond. Mag. 17 Several antic figures in shapes of boys danced. 1861Tannhäuser 20 The twilight troop'd with antic shapes.
c. in dress or attire.
1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1738 I. 125 It had no Rubric to be sung in an antic Cope upon the Stage of a High Altar. 1665Glanvill Sceps. Sci. 96 Their antick deckings with feathers. 1727Swift Gulliver iii. vii. 223 Two rows of guards..dressed after a very antic manner. 1776Chron. in Ann. Reg. 155/2 An ass..with a fellow in an antick dress riding upon it. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. I. 80 The papal guards, in the strangest antique and antic costume that was ever seen.
†3. Having the features grotesquely distorted like ‘antics’ in architecture; grinning. Obs.
1594Drayton Idea 424 Making withall some filthy Antike Face. 1611Cotgr., Gargouille, The mouth of a Spowt, representing a Serpent, or the Anticke face of some other ouglie creature. 1620Quarles Jonah (1638) 41 Your mimick mouthes, your antick faces. a1631Donne Elegies (R.) Name not these living death-heds unto me, For these not ancient but antique be. a1659Cleveland Wks. (1687) 31 The Antick heads which plac'd without The Church, do gape and disembogue a Spout. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) III. i. 406 The little Tame-Owl..making divers antick faces.
4. Comb., as † antic-faced (see 3).
1635J. Taylor (Water P.) Parr in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) IV. 205 An antick-faced fellow, called Jack, or John the Fool.
B. n.
†1. Arch. and Decorative Art. An ornamental representation, purposely monstrous, caricatured, or incongruous, of objects of the animal or the vegetable kingdom, or of both combined.
a. Fantastic tracery or sculpture. Obs.
1548Hall Chron. Hen. VIII an. 18 (R.) Aboue the arches were made many sondri antikes and diuises. 1596Spenser F.Q. ii. vii. 4 Woven with antickes and wyld ymagery. 1645Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 146 The walls and roof are painted, not with antiques and grotesques, like our Bodleian. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. viii, A faire Cornucopia or Horne of abundance, such as you see in Anticks. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict., Grotesque or Grotesc, a work, the same with what is sometimes called Antick. 1830R. Stuart Dict. Archit.: Antics, In architecture, Fancies having no foundation in nature, as sphinxes, centaurs, syrens, representations of different sorts of flowers growing on the same stem; grotesque ornaments of all kinds, as lions and pards with acanthus' tails, or any other tails but their own proper ones; human forms with similar ridiculous appendages. Ornaments, although strictly natural, in an unnatural situation; as, caryatidæ of all kinds..The villa Palagonia, in Sicily, is an antic, from entrance gate to chimney top.
b. A caryatid, or (sculptured) human figure represented in an impossible position.
c1590Marlowe Faustus (2nd vers.) 715 To make his monks..stand like apes, And point like antics at his triple crown. 1615Bp. Hall Contempl. (1837) I. xviii. iii. 395 Like some antic statue, in a posture of impotent endeavour. 1638Chillingworth Relig. Prot. i. vi. §54, 374 Those crouching Anticks which seeme in great buildings to labour under the weight they beare. 1640Bp. Hall Chr. Moder. 20/1 Those antics of stone..carved out under the end of great beams in vast buildings, which seem..as if they were hard put to it with the weight. c1656Hales Gold. Rem. (1688) 167 Those that build houses make anticks that seem to hold up the beams. 1830[See sense a].
c. A grotesquely figured representation of a face, such as are used in gargoyles.
1601Holland Pliny (1634) II. 552 To set vp Gargils or Antiques at the top of a Gauill end, as a finiall to the crest tiles. 1683Lond Gaz. mdccclix/8 Three Gold Seals, one with an Old Man's Head, another with a Woman's Head, and the other with an Antick.
2. A grotesque or ludicrous gesture, posture, or trick; also fig. of behaviour. (Commonly in pl.)
1529Foxe in Supplic. (1871) Introd. 9 In sothe it maketh me to laugh, to see y⊇ mery Antiques of M. More. 1572Sir T. Smith in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. 191 III. 20 Vaulting with notable supersaltes and through hoopes, and last of all the Antiques, of carrying of men one uppon an other which som men call labores Herculis. 1633Ford Love's Sacr. iii. iv, A pox upon your outlandish feminine anticks. 1823Lamb Elia ii. v. (1865) 266 This mortal frame, while thou didst play thy brief antics amongst us. 1843Lever Jack Hinton xxvii. 189 Performing more antics than Punch in a pantomine.
†3. A grotesque pageant or theatrical representation. Obs.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. i. 119 Some delightfull ostentation, or show, or pageant, or anticke, or fire-worke. Ibid. v. i. 154 We will haue, if this fadge not, an Antique. 1633Ford Love's Sacr. iii. ii, Performed by knights and ladies of his court, In nature of an antick. 1673Ladies Call. ii. iii. §26 How preposterous is it for an old woman..to be at masks and dancings, when she is only fit to act the antics.
b. Hence, A grotesque or motley company. rare.
1589Warner Alb. Eng. (1612) 345 Heards-men, Sheap⁓heards, Plow-men, and Hinds: this Anticke of Groomes.
4. A performer who plays a grotesque or ludicrous part, a clown, mountebank, or merry-andrew.
1564Cap in Thynne's Animadv. App. 130 Thou wearest me..sometime lyke a Royster, sometime like a Souldiour, sometime lyke an Antique. 1592Greene in Shaks. Cent. Praise 2 Those Anticks garnisht in our colours. 1618Bp. Hall Serm. v. 113 Are they Christians, or Antics in some Carnival? 1671Milton Samson 1325 Jugglers and dancers, antics, mummers, mimics. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1858) 341 Dancing and hallooing like an antic. 1827Hood Mids. Fairies liv, How Puck, the antic..Had blithely jested with calamity.
b. transf. and fig.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. ii. 162 There [death] the Antique sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his Pompe. [Cf. a 1631 in A 3. A death's head grins like an ‘antic.’] 1606G. W[oodcocke] Hist. Justine 10 b, There flocked a great throng of souldiers about him, wondering at this so mishapen an Anticke. 1823Lamb Elia ii. xxiv. (1865) 409 [A pun] is an antic which does not stand upon manners, but comes bounding into the presence. 1864Dickens Mut. Fr. ii. i. 172 A little crooked antic of a child.
†c. phr. to dance antics. Obs.
1544R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 47 Myght be thought to daunce Anticke very properly. Ibid. 147 Menne that shoulde daunce antiques. 1602Dekker Satirom. 245 Yet must we Dance Antickes on your Paper. [1635Austin Medit. 208 Will Herod reward the Dance of an Antique with the Head of a Prophet? 1687Congreve Old Bachelor iii. x. Stage Direct., After the song a dance of Antics.]
5. Comb., as antick-cutter, a carver of grotesques.
1660H. Bloome Archit. (title-page), Antick-Cutters.
▪ II. antic, v.|ˈæntɪk|
Pa. tense anticked, -ickt.
[f. prec. adj. and n.; cf. to caper and capers.]
†1. trans. To make antic or grotesque. Obs.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. vii. 132 The wilde disguise hath almost Antickt vs all.
2. intr. To perform antics, act as an antic. Also in phr. to antic it.
1589Nashe in Greene Menaphon Ded. (Arb.) 17 They might have antickt it..up and downe the countrey with the King of Fairies. 1606Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. xci. 367 Now Pincht they him, antickt about, and on, and off him lept. 1822B. Cornwall Flood of Thessaly ii. 353 So, ere it slumber'd in entire repose, Antick'd the Ocean. 1829Hood Epping Hunt lxxiv, Some rolled about, And anticked as they rode. 1879G. Meredith Egoist Prel. 7 Until he begins insensibly to frolic and antic, unknown to himself. |